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Erich Schmidt (pilot)
Erich "Schmidtchen" Schmidt (17 November 1914 – 31 August 1941) was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership - for the fighter pilots, it was a quantifiable measure of skill and combat success.
==Career==
After completing his flight training, at the start of the war in September 1939, ''Leutnant'' Schmidt was in the 2nd ''Staffel'' of ''Jagdgeschwader'' 53 (2./JG 53).〔Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries website.〕 Transferred to 9th ''Staffel'' (9./JG 53) in the following February, he had no success in the French campaign, and his first victory was on 12 August 1940 when he shot down a Spitfire over the Isle of Wight. He was far more successful in the Battle of Britain however, and he had 17 victories by end of November 1940,〔Aces of the Luftwaffe website.〕 when he was transferred briefly to the ''Stab'' (HQ) flight of III./JG 53 as ''Gruppe-Adjutant''.〔Weal 2007, pg. 38.〕
But he was back with 9./JG 53 for the invasion of Russia Operation Barbarossa. With his unit covering the advance of Hoth's panzers on the northern side of Army Group Centre, on the opening day of the campaign (22 June 1941) he shot down four Russian aircraft, and his 30th victory was an I-16 fighter on 4 July. For that score he was awarded the Knight's Cross by the newly promoted General of Fighters Werner Mölders on 23 July. His unit was constantly on the move, leap-frogging forward to airbases often only cleared of enemy a day or two before. Barely staying a few days to a week at a time, their mission was to protect the ground troops from enemy bombers as the ''blitzkrieg'' stormed eastward past Minsk, Vitebsk, Smolensk, toward Moscow.
On 26 July he shot down 5 DB-3 bombers, 3 in the morning and 2 more in the afternoon. He shot down his final three victories on 29 August taking his total to 47. But on 31 August 1941, returning from a ''freie Jagd'' (free hunt), he was himself shot down after being hit by Soviet anti-aircraft fire east of Velikiye Luki.〔Weal 2007, pg. 48.〕 Baling out behind enemy lines, he was never seen again.〔Spick 2006, pp. 121, 123.〕 At the time he was the top-scoring pilot of III/JG 53, and was posthumously promoted to ''Oberleutnant''.
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