Brandt, Fritz (Kampfgeschwader 27)

Date of birth:: March 23rd, 1918 (Blumenthal, Rendsburg-Eckernförde - Germany)
Date of death:: April 5th, 1992
Nationality:: German

Biography

Promotions:
December 1939: Leutnant;
February 1st, 1942: Oberleutnant.

Career:
1940: 2. Staffel, Kampfgruppe 126;
1941: 2. Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 28;
1942: 8. Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 26;
?: 3. Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 27;
1942: 3. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
1942-1943: I. Gruppe, Nachtjagdschule 1;
1943: 2. Staffel, Nachtjagdschule 1;
1943: 5. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 101;
1943: 4. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 101;
1944: 2. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
1944: Adjutant, II. Gruppe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
1945: 9. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
March 7th, 1945: IV. Gruppe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
1945: 7. Staffel, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3;
May 2nd, 1945: IV. Gruppe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 3.

Achieved 8 air victories.
Oblt. Fritz Brandt, piloting a JU88 Night Fighter, was responsible for shooting down a Halifax Bomber on 2/3 May 1945. That Bomber RG375, collided with Halfax RG 373, causing the death of a combined crew of 13, including F.O Kenneth Norman Joseph Croft , 183376 W/Op . The last punitive heavy Bomber raid (target Kiel) of WW2. Ironically, also, the last operational flight of Oblt Brandt (research Dr. Theo Boiten).