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Sorge, Ernst (Aufklärungsgruppe 124)

Date of birth:
January 25th, 1912 (Gieboldehausen/Hanover, Germany)
Date of death:
May 21st, 1992 (Gieboldehausen/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

00.00.1935: Infanterie-Regiment 16, Reichswehr
00.00.1935: transferred tp the Luftwaffe for pilot training
00.00.1937-00.00.1938: flew 72 combat missions as a long-range reconnaissance pilot for the Condor Legion
00.00.1940: Feldwebel, campaign in France and England
00.00.1941: promoted to Oberfeldwebel
07.10.1941: Ofw., awarded the Ehrenpokal
07.02.1942: Ofw., awarded the DKiG, Aufklärungs-Kette, AOK Norwegen
Reported the pilot of the most successful crew in the "Fern-Aufklärungskette Lappland" - the other crewman were :
-Oberfeldwebel Ernst Kaiser (DKiG 13.01.1942)
-Uffz. Schankweiler
-Hptm. Konrad Knabe, Observer (DKiG 23.12.1941, RK 16.04.1943)
00.04.1942: 2.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 22
01.12.1942: promoted to Leutnant
01.04.1943: promoted to Hauptmann (Kr.O.) RDA 01.02.1942
02.11.1943: Hauptmann, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 124, Ju 88D-1 Werknummer 430.802 coded "G2 + FK", pilot reported "Safe" after being hit by Russian flak in his Ju 88 but was able to make a force landing on the Alakurtti airfield
26.03.1944: Hauptmann, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungs-Gruppe 124, awarded the RK
00.04.1945-00.05.1945: Hauptmann, Ramm-Kommando, „Sonderkommando Elbe"
07.04.1945: participated in the Ramm-Attack on American bombers but was unable to complete the mission as a result of a smoking engine, making an emergency landing near Lüneburg.
00.00.1956: Hauptmann, Bundeswehr
30.09.1965: retired as Hauptmann

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Flugzeugführerabzeichen
Period:
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Awarded on:
June 6th, 1939
Spanienkreuz, Silber mit Schwertern
Awarded on:
1939
Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht 4.Klasse, 4 Jahre
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
Unit:
Aufklärungsstaffel
Awarded on:
October 7th, 1941
Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
with swords
Vapaudenristin 3.luokka (VR 3)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
Unit:
A-Kette, Armee-Oberkommando Norwegen
Awarded on:
February 7th, 1942
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Hauptmann (Flight Lieutenant)
Unit:
Flugzeugführer, 1.(F) Staffel, Aufklärungsgruppe 124, Kette Lappland
Awarded on:
March 26th, 1944
For flying 288 combat missions
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Sources

  • Photo 1: Timo Schicke
  • Photo 2:
  • Photo: Timo Schicke
    - http://www.ritterkreuztraeger.info/rk/s/S752Sorge-Ernst.pdf
  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - 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
    - Hptm. Ernst Sorge/RKT Fernaufklärer - Axis History Forum

Photos