Ensle, Wolfgang (Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann")
- Date of birth:
- July 29th, 1920 (Mutlangen, Schwäb. Gmund/Württemberg, Germany)
- Date of death:
- September 27th, 2007 (Munich/Bavaria, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Flew a total of 760 sorties during WWII, most of these with the Ju 87. He was credited with destroying 34 tanks (among other things) during this time.
26.11.1944: Oberfeldwebel, 3./ SG-2, last mission, shot down and bailed out, WIA and evacuated to a Lazarett
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Flugzeugführerabzeichen
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Unit:
- Flugzeugführer
- Awarded on:
- March 22nd, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Unteroffizier
- Unit:
- I. Gruppe, Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- October 17th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Flugzeugführer, 3. Staffel, I. Gruppe, Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- August 8th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- OBERMAIER, ERNST, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz, 1976.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- PATZWALL, K. D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008.
- Ritterkreuz Archiv I / 2008
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