Staub, Josef
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
On the night of 8/9 August 1941, Olt Robert-Ludwig Becker and his radio operator (Bordfunker) Josef Staub, also became the first Luftwaffe night fighter crew to intercept an enemy bomber using airborne radar.
Flying Dornier Do 215 B-5 "G9+OM" equipped with the FuG 202 Lichtenstein B/C radar, they tracked and claimed another Wellington bomber shot down. The aircraft shot down was Wellington T2625 GR-B which crashed near Bunde.
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Fliegerschutzenabzeichen für Bordfunker und Bordschutzen
- 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)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Feldwebel (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Bordfunker
- Awarded on:
- August 3rd, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Feldwebel (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 12./Nachtjagd-Geschwader 1
- Awarded on:
- January 28th, 1943
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