August Lambert

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August Lambert
18 February 1916(1916-02-18) – 17 April 1945 (aged 29)
Place of birth	Kleestadt
Place of death	Kamenz
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Luftwaffe
Rank	Oberleutnant
Unit	StG 2, SG 77
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

August Lambert (born 18 February 1916 in Kleestadt district of Dieburg - Killed in action 17 April 1945 in Kamenz) was a former dive-bomber and ground attack pilot who became a Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ^[1] during World War II.

An experienced pilot with II./SG 2, the unit was heavily involved in Crimean campaign during early-mid 1944, and in addition to its usual ground-attack work flew interception sorties, claiming some 247 Soviet aircraft shot down. Leutnant Lambert claimed some 70 kills during one three week period.

On the morning of April 17, 1945 Leutnant Gerhard Bauer, Oberleutnant August Lambert, and another pilot were taking off from Kamenz for a mission to the front when American P-51Ds of the 55th Fighter Group appeared. Bauer's FW 190 F-9 "Black 1 +" was quickly shot down north of Kuckau, about eight kilometres east-south-east of Kamenz. August Lambert and another 8./SG 77 pilot tried desperately to get away, but could not lose their pursuers. Lambert was shot down in FW 190 F-8 "Black 9 +" just north of Hoyerswerda, a town some 20 km north-north-east of Kamenz.

Lambert was officially credited with shooting down 116 enemy aircraft, all claimed on the Eastern front.

[edit] Awards

German Cross in Gold (1 October 1944)
Iron Cross 2. and 1. class
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (14 May 1944)

[edit] References

^ Fellgiebel

Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.

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200+	Wilhelm Batz (237) • Erich Rudorffer (222) • Heinz Bär (220) • Hermann Graf (212) • Heinrich Ehrler (208) • Theodor Weissenberger (208) • Hans Philipp (206) • Walter Schuck (206) • Anton Hafner (204) • Helmut Lipfert (203)

150+	Walter Krupinski (197) • Anton Hackl (192) • Joachim Brendel (189) • Max Stotz (189) • Joachim Kirschner (188) • Kurt Brändle (180) • Günther Josten (178) • Johannes Steinhoff (176) • Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert (174) • Günther Schack (174) • Emil Lang (173) • Heinz Schmidt (173) • Horst Ademeit (166) • Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke (162) • Hans-Joachim Marseille (158) • Heinrich Sturm (158) • Gerhard Thyben (157) • Hans Beisswenger (152) • Peter Düttmann (152) • Gordon M. Gollob (150)

100+	Fritz Tegtmeier (146) • Albin Wolf (144) • Kurt Tanzer (143) • Friedrich-Karl Müller (140) • Karl Gratz (138) • Heinrich Setz (138) • Rudolf Trenkel (138) • Franz Schall (137) • Walter Wolfrum (137) • Horst-Günther von Fassong (136) • Otto Fönnekold (136) • Karl-Heinz Weber (136) • Joachim Müncheberg (135) • Hans Waldmann (134) • Alfred Grislawski (133) • Johannes Wiese (133) • Adolf Borchers (132) • Adolf Dickfeld (132) • Erwin Clausen (132) • Wilhelm Lemke (131) • Gerhard Hoffmann (130) • Franz Eisenach (129) • Walther Dahl (129) • Heinrich Sterr (129) • Franz Dörr (128) • Rudolf Rademacher (126) • Josef Zwernemann (126) • Dietrich Hrabak (125) • Wolf-Udo Ettel (124) • Herbert Ihlefeld (123) • Wolfgang Tonne (122) • Heinz Marquardt (121) • Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121) • Robert Weiß (121) • Erich Leie (121) • Friedrich Obleser (120) • Franz-Josef Beerenbrock (117) • Hans-Joachim Birkner (117) • Jakob Norz (117) • Walter Oesau (117) • Heinz Wernicke (117) • August Lambert (116) • Wilhelm Crinius (114) • Werner Schröer (114) • Hans Dammers (113) • Berthold Korts (113) • Helmut Lent (113) • Kurt Bühlingen (112) • Kurt Ubben (110) • Franz Woidich (110) • Reinhard Seiler (109) • Emil Bitsch (108) • Hans Hahn (108) • Bernhard Vechtel (108) • Viktor Bauer (106) • Werner Lucas (106) • Günther Lützow (105) • Adolf Galland (104) • Eberhard von Boremski (104) • Heinz Sachsenberg (104) • Hartmann Grasser (103) • Siegfried Freytag (102) • Friedrich Geisshardt (102) • Egon Mayer (102) • Max-Hellmuth Ostermann (102) • Josef Wurmheller (102) • Werner Mölders (101) • Rudolf Miethig (101) • Josef Priller (101) • Ulrich Wernitz (101) • Rudolf Müller (101)

See also: List of top World War II aces and List of World War II aces from Germany