Date of birth:

August 21st, 1916 (Kommern, Komořany, Most, Sudetes, Austria)

Date of death:

March 6th, 1944 (Rheisehlen, Oldenburg/Lower Saxony, Germany)

Buried on:

German War Graves Marienbad / Marianske Lazne
Grave: UNK.

Nationality:

German

Achieved a total of 92 aerial victories, the vast majority of these in the East.

19.01.1942: Leutnant, 1./ JG 54 unhurt - Bf 109 F-2 crash-landed near Ljuban airfield due to Anti-Aircraft damage to radiator - engine fire
00.12.1942: in I./ JG 54
20.02.1943: Lt., in 3./ JG 54
22.03.1943: Lt., 3./ JG 54
08.04.1943: Lt., 1./ JG 54
05.07.1943: Lt., 1./ JG 54
26.09.1943: Lt., 1./ JG 54
00.09.1943: Lt., appointed Staka, 8./ JG 54
20.09.1943: Lt., awarded the Ehrenpokal
17.10.1943: Lt., awarded DKiG, 1./ JG 54
01.11.1943: in JG 54, promoted to Oberleutnant
20.12.1943: Lt., 9./ JG 54
05.02.1944: awarded the Ritterkreuz, Stafü 8./ JG 54
21.02.1944-06.03.1944: Oblt., 8./ JG 54, appointed acting Staka 9./ JG 54
02.03.1944: Oblt., FFS A 112, WIA? - Bü 181 B-2 force-landed near Göppingen and overturned
06.03.1944: Oblt., Staka 8./ JG 54, KIA – Bf 109 G6 Werknummer 411.922 coded 'RX+DL' shot down by a P-51 of 357 FG in the Oldenburg area, dropped out of his chute at 60 feet
to avoid high voltage wires, crashed near Reinsehlen

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• Photo 2:
• - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - Kurowski F., Oberleutnant Otto Kittel, Der erfolgreichste Jagdflieger des Jagdgeschwaders 54, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg, 2007
  - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
  

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