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Wolfgang Bruckner

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Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany

Years of service
  
?–1943

Name
  
Wolfgang Bruckner

Service/branch
  
Luftwaffe

Unit
  
Kampfgeschwader 1

Died
  
14 July 1943(1943-07-14) (aged 23) over Silesia

Rank
  
Hauptmann (Posthumously)

Wolfgang Bruckner (26 May 1920 – 14 July 1943) was a German Luftwaffe bomber pilot. Bruckner was killed on 14 July 1943 over Silesia, Germany. He was posthumously promoted to Hauptmann and on 5 December 1943 was simultaneously awarded the Knight's Cross.

Awards

  • Aviator badge
  • Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe
  • Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (20 December 1941)
  • Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (13 September 1939)
  • 1st Class (21 May 1940)
  • German Cross in Gold on 4 May 1942 as Leutnant in the 6./Kampfgeschwader 1
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 5 December 1943 (posthumously) as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitan of the 3./Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg"

    • References

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