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Jun 12, 2006 · Flying with skill and daring, the great ace Luftwaffe Eagle Johannes Steinhoff survived the war and a horrible accident, living into his 80s. by Colin D. Heaton 6/12/2006. Johannes Steinhoff in Italy, 1943. (National Archives)
Beyond his service in the German military, did he have any solid ties to the Party and was he an active supporter of things like the Final Solution? Is there any evidence to suggest he was aware of or directly complicit in any war crimes during WWII?
Mar 31, 2020 · On April 18, 1945, Steinhoff’s Me-262 crashed on takeoff, and the resulting fire left his face horribly disfigured. He spent two years after the war recovering in hospitals and undergoing reconstructive surgery. Johannes “Macky” Steinhoff (left) and American General William W. Momyer attend a joint NATO maneuver in 1969.
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May 6, 1985 · But today they came together, American and German, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway and Gen. Johannes Steinhoff, reconciled and united for freedom, they reached over the graves to one another like ...
His wartime record was 176 aircraft claimed destroyed, of which 152 were on the Eastern front, 12 on the Western front and 12 in the Mediterranean. He also flew 993 operational sorties. During his career as a fighter pilot, Steinhoff was shot down 12 times, but had to bail out only once.
Feb 23, 1994 · Lieut. Gen. Johannes Steinhoff, one of the Luftwaffe's fighter aces of World War II and a mover in rebuilding the postwar German military under NATO auspices, died on Monday in Bonn. He was...
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Fighter ace Col. Johannes Steinhoff commanded an elite group of pilots trained to fly the first jet aircraft employed in combat, the famous Messerschmitt Me-262, at a time when Reich Marshal...
