Adolf Glunz

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Adolf Glunz
11 June 1916(1916-06-11) — 1 August 2002 (aged 86)
Place of birth Mecklenburg
Allegiance Flag of Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch Luftwaffe
Years of service 1939-1945
Rank Oberst
Unit JG 52, JG 26, EJG 2, JG 7
Commands held 5./JG 26
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves

Adolf "Addi" Glunz was a World War II Flying ace in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).

[edit] Military career

Adolf Glunz is credited with 71 aerial victories achieved in 574 combat missions. He engaged the enemy on 238 occasions and claimed all but three victories over the Western Front. Glunz is most noted for never being shot down or wounded all this time. The nearest he came to losing an aircraft was on 13 October 1944, when a broken oil pipe caused his engine to fail while in combat with two P-47 Thunderbolt.[1]

Glunz most successful day as a fighter pilot was 22 February 1944 when during the course of two combat missions he claimed four B-17 Flying Fortress, a P-47 Thunderbolt plus forcing another B-17 out of formation. Only three B-17s and the P-47 were confirmed bringing his score to 58.[2]

He is credited with five ground victories during Operation Bodenplatte. In February 1945 Glunz was assigned to JG 7 and undertook conversion training to the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. However he never flew the Me 262 in combat.[2]

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Spick 1996, p. 187.
  2. ^ a b Spick 1996, p. 188.
  • Aces of the Luftwaffe. Adolf Glunz. Retrieved on 6 March 2008.
  • Caldwell, Donald L. JG 26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe. Ivy Books, 1991. ISBN 0-8041-1050-6.
  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
  • Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
  • Spick, Mike. Luftwaffe Fighter Aces. New York: Ivy Books, 1996. ISBN 0-8041-1696-2.
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