Profile no 116. Messerschmitt Bf 109 K-4


Flown by Major Adolf Borchers, Stab III./JG 52, Deutsch Brod/Czechoslovakia, May 1945

With his 118th aerial victory on September 2, 1944, Borschers scored JG 52s 10,000th victory. On February 1, 1945 he became the reluctant commander of III./JG 52, after the younger Hartmann took over Borchers first Gruppen. When the war was over, he and many of his fellow pilots went into a long lasting Soviet captivity. Adolf Borchers amassed 132 victories in approximately 800 sorties.

The text and profile is from my profile book number 3, Luftwaffe Fighters in Profile

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