| Caption | German pilot Oberleutnant Theodor Rossiwall preparing to enter his Bf 110 fighter, western France, summer 1940 ww2dbase | |||||||
| Photographer | Folkerts | |||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archives | |||||||
| Identification Code | Bild 101I-341-0496-33 | |||||||
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| Photo Size | 800 x 527 pixels | |||||||
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| Licensing | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"George Patton, 31 May 1944
28 Dec 2012 08:18:14 PM
LUFTWAFFE PILOTS FLEW UNTIL THEY DIED OR WERE INJURIED:
Staffelkapitan Oblt.Theodor Rossiwall of
5./ZG26 climbs aboard his Bf-110 twin engine fighter. He flew in the Battle of Britain and credited w/five victories and flew 400 combat missions.Flew in the Spanish Civil War, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia,
Greece, Crete and Russia.
Later reassigned to 6./NJG 4 and later was Commander of II./NJG 4. In 1944 he was seriously injuried in a takeoff accident and never returned to operational flying.