Date of birth:

May 9th, 1917 (Zeisdorf, Sorau, Germany)

Date of death:

June 2nd, 1944 (Pori, Finland)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Rovaniemi-Norvaja
Plot: 5. Grave: 7.

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

At the age of 16, Martin Möbus was the leader of a group of 250 Hitler Youth members. Already at that same age he flew with gliderplanes.

He began his training with the Luftwaffe in 1936 and completed his course in 1938. His first unit to fly with was the I.Gruppe of them1. Stukageschwader. With this unit he took part of the campaign in Poland (spetember 1939) and Norway (april-may 1940).

After these campaigns het was ordered to Germany for more training and flew with the 4./Stuka-Geschwader 2. his excellent leader capacity's made him Hauptmann and Commander of the 1./Stuka-Geschwader 5 during the Russian Campaign.

Martin Möbus was killed in a car crash in Pori, Finnland on June 2nd 1944. During the more than 800 sorties he flew, he destroyed over 60 Soviet tanks, 5 armoured trains, 18 Flak batteries, 600 assorted vehicles, 1 cruiser and 1 tanker (with 14500 GRT).

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• - OBERMAIER, ERNST, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz, 1976.
  - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 1998.
  - Internationales Militaria-Magazine, Oktober-November 1996, page 29
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht

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