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Hans Reiff - Pilot Profile - Hans Reiff

Hans Reiff

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Victories : 48
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Country : Germany
Fought in : WW2
Fought for : Axis


Latest Axis Aviation Artwork !
In early May 1941, in conditions of strict secrecy because the United States was not yet at war, seventeen pilots of the US Navy had arrived in Britain and been attached to Catalina squadrons of Coastal Command. These experienced PBY pilots were there to assist the Royal Air Force to become familiar with the Catalina, and also to gain operational experience for the US Navy. On 26th May 1941 Catalina Z of No.209 Sqn, commanded by Flying Officer Dennis Briggs RAF, with Ensign Leonard B Smith USN as co-pilot, joined the search for the Bismarck. At 1015 the aircraft was being flown in poor visibility at an altitude of 500ft when Ensign Smith sighted the Bismarck at a range of eight miles. The Catalina was flown towards the contact so that a positive identification could be made and emerged from the cloud only 500 yards from the German ship. The aircraft met a hail of anti-aircraft fire but was able to make its escape. As a result of the sighting report from Catalina Z the Bismarck was again engaged by ships and aircraft of the Royal Navy and was sunk at 1040 on 27th May 1941. Leonard Smith can be considered therefore, the first American to be directly involved in action in World War Two. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (American) for his actions.

The Aircraft That Found the Bismarck by Ivan Berryman.		 One of the all time great fighter aces, Adolf Galland is depicted flying Bf 109E-4/N of Stab/JG26 in September 1940. Galland flew 705 combat missions during World War Two and was credited with a final tally of 104 aerial victories. He survived the war and died peacefully in February 1996.

Tribute to Generalleutnant Adolf Galland by Ivan Berryman.		 Walter Briegleb is shown in his Ju88 G.7 4R+BR as he stalks his prey - on this occasion a Lancaster. Flying below their target, his crew would aim upward firing cannon at the inner wing of the bomber, igniting the fuel tanks. For the bomber crews, they were very much defenceless against this type of attack, and often had no idea of the presence of an enemy aircraft in the dark.

Tribute to Walter Briegleb by Ivan Berryman.		 The attack by Leutnant Walter Briegleb and his crew on Lancaster Mk.III ND960 DX-I of No.57 Sqn early on 22nd May 1944. Flying Me110 with codes D5+BV with his crew of Feldwebel Walter Bräunlich and Bordfunker Feldwebel Brandt, Briegleb flew undetected beneath the bomber and used the deadly 'Schräge Musik' - upward firing cannon - to hit the fuel tanks in the port wing between the fuselage and inner engine. Pulling away, he watched the aircraft burn and could see both gunners in their turrets but no return fire came. He wondered why none of the crew escaped by parachute with the bomber doomed - it disintegrated in the air over the coast of the island of Fyn, Denmark, impacting near Emtekær at 00:44hrs.<br><br><center>All of the crew were killed :<br>Flight Lieutenant Arthur Richards (Pilot)<br>Flying Officer William Woodall (Navigator)<br>Pilot Officer Athur Bugden (Flight Engineer)<br>Sergeant Thomas Edwards (Wireless Operator)<br>Flying Officer George Ferguson (Air Bomber)<br>Sergeant Harold Griffiths (Air Gunner)<br>Sergeant Cyril Woodmass (Air Gunner)

The Hunted and the Hunter by Ivan Berryman.

Hans Reiff

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JG3


Country : Germany

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JG3

Jagdgeschwader 3 (JG 3) Udet was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing of World War II. The Geschwader operated on all the German fronts in the European Theatre of World War II. It was named after Ernst Udet in 1942.

Commanders of IV./JG 3

Major Franz Beyer, 1. June 1943
Hauptmann Heinz Lang , 11 February 1944
Major Friedrich-Karl Müller, 26 February 1944
Hauptmann Heinz Lang , 11 April 1944
Major Wilhelm Moritz, 18 April 1944
Hauptmann Hubert-York Weydenhammer, 5 December 1944
Major Erwin Bacsila, 5 January 1945
Oberleutnant Oskar Romm, 17 February 1945
Hauptmann Gerhard Koall, 25 April 1945
Hauptmann Günther Schack, 1 Mai 1945

Known Victory Claims - Hans Reiff

DATE

PILOT

UNIT

JG

CLAIMED

LOCATION

TIME

FRONT

20/05/1942Ogefr. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-110km E. Volchansk: 150m15.43Eastern Front
30/06/1942Gefr. Hans Reiff8JG 3Jak-4-5.01Eastern Front
09/07/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Jak-4-19.02Eastern Front
09/07/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Jak-4-19.03Eastern Front
11/07/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3R-10-5.1Eastern Front
26/07/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3P-2-14.2Eastern Front
29/07/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3LaGG-3SW Kalatsch: 2800m4.02Eastern Front
24/08/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3R-5SW Achtuba: tiefflug15.05Eastern Front
30/08/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2E. Tundutov: 500m17.05Eastern Front
30/08/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2N. Sarepta: 300m17.08Eastern Front
31/08/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-350 894: 2500m17.25Eastern Front
03/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-318km NW Stalingrad: 2500m17Eastern Front
04/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-35km N. Iloninskaya: 1500m5.35Eastern Front
08/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-13km S. Achtuba: 800m6.12Eastern Front
14/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Pe-23km E. Antipovka: 1500m15.25Eastern Front
22/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-31km NW Bhf. Kotluban: 1500m9.03Eastern Front
30/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-36km E. Kotluban: 2000m15.01Eastern Front
30/09/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3LaGG-3E. Baniski: 4000m15.12Eastern Front
05/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3LaGG-35km NE Stalingrad: 1000m6.05Eastern Front
06/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3LaGG-35km S. Solodinski: 1500m15.4Eastern Front
07/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3R-52km NW Ichtilm: tiefflug7.35Eastern Front
24/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-140 533: 3500m15.4Eastern Front
26/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-25km SW Stalingrad: 200m10.43Eastern Front
26/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-21km W. Beketovka: 200m10.46Eastern Front
29/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Boston III10km NW Kamenschin: 4000m10.05Eastern Front
30/10/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-15km N. Kasputin Yar: tiefflug6.12Eastern Front
06/11/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-35km E. Krassnoye-Chuduk: 180m14.15Eastern Front
06/11/1942Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-35km E. Krassnoye-Chuduk: 10m14.16Eastern Front
18/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-339 653: 300m7.57Eastern Front
20/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-31km N. Bekelorska: 800m7.27Eastern Front
27/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2NE Pitomnik: 500m9Eastern Front
27/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-21km NE Pitomnik: 200m11.5Eastern Front
27/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Pe-23km N. Kaltasch: 800m12.15Eastern Front
28/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-23km N. Morosowkaja: 500m14Eastern Front
31/12/1942Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-350km N. Morosowskaya: 500m7.35Eastern Front
11/02/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3P-25km NE Gorlovka: 800m7.33Eastern Front
26/02/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3Il-21km N. Baranensk: 200m11.01Eastern Front
05/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2Brigaderovka: 100m6.22Eastern Front
06/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-23km E. Andrejevka: tiefflug13.2Eastern Front
06/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2N. Andrejevka: 500m16.08Eastern Front
10/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Pe-270 540: 30m12.41Eastern Front
12/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3MiG-3500m N. Kupyansk: 2500m8.05Eastern Front
15/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3Pe-22km NE Rogan: 1500m14.51Eastern Front
17/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3Pe-260 433: tiefflug6.08Eastern Front
18/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3LaGG-370 441: 4000m10.2Eastern Front
19/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3Boston61 741: 4000m12.57Eastern Front
22/03/1943Fw. Hans Reiff7JG 3LaGG-33km S. Rostov12.32Eastern Front
01/04/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-398 834: 2000m8.31Eastern Front
01/04/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Boston98 821: tiefflug8.42Eastern Front
03/04/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3MiG-11km westl. Alexandrovka: 2000m11Eastern Front
15/04/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3I-16 Rata85 743: 800m6.18Eastern Front
15/04/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Airacobra3km SE Neledshskaya: 3500m14.48Eastern Front
20/04/1943Uffz. Hans Reiff8JG 3Boston85 371: 50m17.5Eastern Front
01/05/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2N. Krasnodiesknaya: 150m15.12Eastern Front
01/05/1943Fw. Hans Reiff8JG 3Il-2N. Kajgorodok: tiefst.15.15Eastern Front

Known Claims : 55

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