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Krupinski, Walter

Date of birth:
November 11th, 1920 (Damnau-Friedland/Eastern Prussia, Germany)
Date of death:
October 7th, 2000 (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany)
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Promotions:
?: Major (Bundeswehr).

Career:
November 13th, 1957 - June 30th, 1958: Kommandeur, Die Waffenschule der Luftwaffe 30 (Bundeswehr).

Walter Kupinski achieved 197 victories in over 1100 operational sorties during the Second World War. After the war he served with the Bundeswehr from 1955 until 9th November 1976, where he finally reached the rank of Generalleutnant.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
May 13th, 1940
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
September 18th, 1941
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
September 13th, 1942
Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:
6. / Jagdgeschwader 52
Awarded on:
October 27th, 1942

Award 30/122.
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Leutnant (Pilot Officer)
Unit:
Flugzeugführer 6. / Jagdgeschwader 52
Awarded on:
October 29th, 1942
Awarded after 53 aerial victories.

627th Award.
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberleutnant (Flying Officer)
Unit:
Staffelkapitän 7. / Jagdgeschwader 52
Awarded on:
March 2nd, 1944
Awarded after 177 aerial victories.

415th Award.
Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub

Sources

  • Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection/Beyerlein sammlung
  • Photo: Willi Schumacher Collection
    - Bundeswehr photo: Beyerlein sammlung
  • - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
    - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
    - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
    - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
    - Patzwall K.D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Studien zur Geschichte der Auszeichnungen, Band 6, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931533-08-3
    - Aces of the Luftwaffe
    - Waffenschule der Luftwaffe 30

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