Adolf Glunz

Adolf Glunz

Adolf "Addi" Glunz
Born (1916-06-11)11 June 1916
Mecklenburg
Died 1 August 2002(2002-08-01) (aged 86)
Lüdenscheid
Allegiance  Nazi Germany
Service/branch  Luftwaffe
Years of service 1939–45
Rank Oberleutnant
Unit JG 52, JG 26, EJG 2, JG 7
Battles/wars

World War II

Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Adolf "Addi" Glunz (11 June 1916 – 1 August 2002) was a World War II flying ace in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). Glunz is credited with 71 aerial victories achieved in 574 combat missions. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.[1] He engaged the enemy on 238 occasions and claimed all but three victories over the Western Front.

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[3]

Awards

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Spick 1996, pp. 3–4.
  2. ↑ Spick 1996, p. 187.
  3. 1 2 Spick 1996, p. 188.
  4. 1 2 Thomas 1997, p. 201.
  5. ↑ Patzwall 2008, p. 85.
  6. ↑ Obermaier 1989, p. 66.
  7. ↑ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 139.
  8. 1 2 Scherzer 2007, p. 337.
  9. ↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 197.
  10. ↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 84.

Bibliography

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  • Obermaier, Ernst (1989). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe Jagdflieger 1939 – 1945 [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Luftwaffe Fighter Force 1939 – 1945] (in German). Mainz, Germany: Verlag Dieter Hoffmann. ISBN 978-3-87341-065-7. 
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