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On Sunday morning, April 11, 1943, the 95th & 96th Fighter Squadrons, tangled with numerous aircraft of the, Luftwaffe, over the Mediterranean Sea. 39 planes of the, Luftwaffe, were lost and/or damaged, including a, Ju52, flown by, Oblt. Wolfgang Loehe. Loehe survived the crash of his, Ju52, and was rescued, 5 1/2 hours later by a German ship. Wolfgang Loehe, will celebrate his 90th birthday, later this summer. He and his son, Paul, wanted to share some photos and information, through the 82nd FG website.

Margret and Oblt. Wolfgang Loehe. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

Oblt. Wolfgang Loehe, member of the IV. Gruppe KG.z.b.V.1, Reggio-Calabria, December 1942. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

May 1942 - Oblt. Wolfgang Loehe - KGr.z.b.V.700 (Osfront). (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

Wolfgang Loehe's, Ju52 at Pleskau, Sept. 1942, KGr.z.b.V.700 (Osfront). (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

Wolfgang Loehe's, Ju52 on the airfield at, Tunis, Nord, Dec. 1942 - MTO - KG.z.b.V.1. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

Wolfgang Loehe's, Ju52, stuck in the sand at the Tunis airfield. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

This pencil drawing was done by a friend of Wolfgang Loehe, in 1944. Notice the P-38s in the upper right hand corner of the drawing and the Ju52s, in the left-center. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

In 1993, 50 years later, Wolfgang Loehe, painted this, 'self portrait'. Notice the P-38s in the upper right hand corner and the Ju52s, in the left-center. (Wolfgang and Paul-Gerhard Loehe collection)

 

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- An article by Warren Thompson appears in the June '03 issue of Flight Journal magazine and is entitled "Turkey Shoot Over Vienna". It covers the mission in which the 82nd FG shot down 21 German aircraft in one mission.

- The Jan. 2003 issue of Fly Past magazine contains an article about the 82nd Fighter Group written by Warren Thompson.