Born on April 11, 1918, Hermann Neuhoff served as an Unteroffizier with III./JG 53 from the beginning of the war. He achieved his first victory on 2 March 1940, when he attacked a formation of RAF Hurricanes over Saarbrücken/Germany together with Hauptmann Werner Mölders.

At the opening of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, he had already amassed ten kills. The first day of the onslaught against the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941, made a strong impact on Neuhoff. "The Russians were caught totally by surprise," he recalls, "and we were able to destroy everything on the ground during our first mission."

During his next mission of the day, he had his first encounter with Soviet fighter pilots, and he describes this air combat as extremely hard. Neuhoff describes the Soviet pilots as both skillful and brave, although handicapped by an outdated equipment.

In late 1941, III./JG 53 was posted to North Africa, where Neuhoff scored his thirty-second victory against an RAF 94 Squadron Hurricane on 11 December 1941. Shortly afterward, III./JG 53 was shifted to Sicily for operations over Malta, where Neuhoff achieved his fortieth and last abschuss against a Hurricane on 9 April 1942.

However on the next day, Lt. Neuhoff was erroneously shot down by Leutnant Werner Schöw of I./JG 53 over Malta and was taken prisoner. British sources claims he may have been the victim of Canadian Ace, Sgt Garth Horricks of RAF No.185 Sq. Ten weeks later, on 16 June 1942 Herrmann Neuhoff was awarded with the Knight's Cross in absentium.

However on the next day, Lt. Neuhoff was erroneously shot down by Leutnant Werner Schöw of I./JG 53 over Malta and was taken prisoner. British sources claims he may have been the victim of Canadian Ace, Sgt Garth Horricks of RAF No.185 Sq. Ten weeks later, on 16 June 1942 Herrmann Neuhoff was awarded with the Knight's Cross in absentium.

This is Neuhoffs photo album, ripped of all interesting photos by fellow "researchers and historians". His own comments regarding the lost photos was: "they promised me to return the photos after copying them, unfortunate no one returned them". Yea, unfortunate this is something I came across several times when visiting other Jagdwaffe veterans. So NOTE that any photos accredited to Neuhoff or any photos of Neuhoffs machines out there is one of the "borrowed photos" taken from this photo album.