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Junker Ju88 of
Kampfgruppe 806 (KGr 806) and pilot Colonel Helmuth Bruckmann in
historical aviation art print by aviation artist M A Kinnear, available
from Cranston Fine Arts.
Aircraft side view by M A Kinnear.
Kampfegruppe 806 (KGr 806) Ident Codes
M7.
Squadron History:
Formed September 1939,
originally as a coastal bomber reconnaissance unit which was absorbed into
the Luftflotte as an orthodox bomber group, still retaining its nucleus of
naval officers. Based at Nantes with detachments at Caen. Originally
equipped with Heinkel He111, it was equipped with Ju88A-1 before and
during the Battle of Britain. KGr 806 also saw operational service on the
Eastern Front and Mediterranean.
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Kampfegruppe 806 (KGr 806) Ident Codes M7. by M A Kinnear.
Formed September 1939, originally as a coastal bomber reconnaissance unit which was absorbed into the Luftflotte as an orthodox bomber group, still retaining its nucleus of naval officers. Based at Nantes with detachments at Caen. Originally equipped with Heinkel He111, it was equipped with Ju88A-1 before and during the Battle of Britain. KGr 806 also saw operational service on the Eastern Front and Mediterranean.
Open edition print. Image size 16.5 inches x 11.5 inches (42cm x 30cm). Price £14.00
ITEM CODE AP0006
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| Colonel Helmuth Brückmann:
Born Hamburg in 1914, Helmuth graduated
from school in Emden in 1934, enlisting into the German Navy the same year
and commencing flying training in 1936, he was promoted to Oberleutnant in
1939 and was made Commanding Officer of a coastal reconnaissance squadron,
aircraft carrier group and subsequently Director of a pilot training
school. Early in WWII he became deputy Squadron Leader in a bomber wing,
regularly flying He111 and Junkers 88 bomber aircraft. Whilst flying Ju88
A-1, werk no 4068 (the subject of this aerofile) of coastal bomber wing KG
806 on a raid to Liverpool 8th October 1940 he and his two man crew were
intercepted and shot down by Hurricanes of 312 Squadron operating out of
Speke (now Liverpool International) Airport. Helmuth crash landed his
badly damaged aircraft onto a bank of the River Mersey at Bromborourgh on
the Wirral peninsula. During the engagement one of his crew was killed and
the other injured. After 36 missions Helmuth Brückmann's war was over.
Promotion to Captain followed in 1942, and he was repatriated in 1944. He
joined the Luftwaffe general staff and was promoted to major in 1945. On
leaving the air force Helmuth studied languages and literature at
university from 1946-1958 and became director of the Goethe Institute in
Munich. He rejoined the Luftwaffe and became a Lt Colonel in 1959 in the
Ministry of Defence, Bonn. After a period as Commander of a cadet training
wing in the Luftwaffe Officers Training School in Munich, he was promoted
to full Colonel in 1961 and transferred to the German Embassy in
Washington D.C. USA as air attaché. After an additional assignment as the
German Military representative with the NATO committee, he returned to
Germany as head of the Military Studies Group in the German Ministry of
Defence. He retired in 1973 and today lives in his native Germany. |
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