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Oberfeldwebel (flight sergeant) Maximilian Volke (Munich, Germany, 1915 – Modena, Italy, 9 September 1944) was a German 37-victory fighter ace of the Luftwaffe's Jagdgeschwader 77. A veteran of the campaigns in Russia and Africa, he was shot down in his Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter over Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, during the Gothic Line operations, on 9 September 1944, by a gunner in an American B-25 Mitchell bomber. Volke was 29 years and was decorated with the German Cross in Gold, received as Feldwebel in the II./JG 77 on July 12, 1943.〔Patzwall, p. 489〕 Ofw. Volke's remains and parts of his aircraft were located and dug out of a farmer's field just north of Modena by an Italian amateur war history research team (the Romagna Air Finders) in July 2007, nearly 63 years after he was shot down.〔(Military.com: "Remains of German WWII Ace Found" )〕 ==References== ;Citations ;Bibliography * Michulec, Robert (2002). ''Luftwaffe at War/Luftwaffe Aces of the Western Front''. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-486-9. * Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. ''Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II''. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maximilian Volke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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