Schlund, Franz (Lehrgeschwader 1)

Date of birth:: August 10th, 1913 (Leimen/Heidelberg, Germany)
Date of death:: September 15th, 1995 (Leimen/Heidelberg, Germany)
Nationality:: German

Biography

Flew a total of about 350 sorties, counted as about 480 front flights
01.10.1937: KG 355
00.09.1939: KG 53
00.02.1940: KGr.z.b.V. 10
18.05.1940: 4./ LG 1, became a member of Joachim Helbig's crew
13.08.1940: shot down a Spitfire
15.08.1940: WIA by fighters over Plymouth - Ju 88 A-1 coded 'L1+AM'
00.04.1941: awarded the Ehrenpokal
30.08.1941/ Ofw. in 4.(K)/LG 1, awarded the Ritterkreuz on completing 200 combat missions – he was the first Bordfunker in the Luftwaffe to be awarded the Ritterkreuz. 00.11.1941: Stab I. / LG 1
00.03.1943: flew his last combat sortie
00.04.1943-00.10.1944: instructor at LN-Schule Halle/Saale
00.10.1944: Nachr.Verb.-Offz., Stab, Fallschirm-Panzerkorps "Hermann Göring"
00.05.1945: Soviet POW
00.00.1956: joined the Bundeswehr
30.09.1965: retired as a Stabsfeldwebel

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Segelflieger-Abzeichen, C-Stufe

Fliegerschutzenabzeichen für Bordfunker und Bordschutzen

Awarded on:: 1936

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: August 1940

WIA 15.08.1940

Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:: Bordfunker
Awarded on:: 1941

Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)
Unit:: Bordfunker, 4.(Kampf) Staffel, Lehrgeschwader 1
Awarded on:: August 30th, 1941

Awarded after flying about 220 sorties with future Swords holder Joachim Helbig, towards whose success he played a major part. He was the first radio operator in the Luftwaffe to be so decorated.