Flown by Flown by Unteroffizier Dieter Göthel, 9./JG 301, Salzwedel/Germany, 20 January 1945

On this day, JG 301 was ordered to transfer to the Eastern Front to fill the role of fighter bombers. The pilots of JG 301 consider this order as "Paukenschlaug", a great blow. However, on this last day of fighting on the Western Front, Dieter Göthel entered a dogfight and crashed landed his machine in Helerau, close to Dresden. Severely injured in the crash, he would not return to his unit.