SS-Master’s photo signature is interesting.
It’s a tribute to the WWII German army.
Check out the places on the bottom line, which is on odd selection.
They include ‘Atlantic’. This would be what? The barges that never left port in Sea Lion?
Also included is ‘Berlin’. Yep, that’d be the Heer’s finest moment, losing the national capital.
If only they’d had some of those Russian sheilas in the Luftwaffe, it might never have happened. Nonetheless, one of the last German flights into and out of Berlin was a gutsy effort by a German woman, Hanna Reitsch.
On April 25, 1945, Greim told Reitsch she must fly with him to Berlin for a meeting with Hitler. As a result of a proposal by Göring to take over leadership of the country, Hitler had ordered Göring arrested, and he intended to appoint Greim the commander in chief of the Luftwaffe.
The last leg of their trip to the Führerbunker in devastated Berlin was made in a little Fieseler Fi-156C Storch (stork), with Greim at the controls and Reitsch crouched behind him. Flying through a hail of Soviet anti-aircraft fire, the plane was hit in the engine and fuel tank. An armor-piercing bullet smashed Greim’s right foot, and he passed out. Reitsch managed to successfully land the Fieseler on the boulevard before the Brandenburg Gate, and they both made it to Hitler’s bunker, where they stayed for two days. Ordered by Hitler to flee Berlin in the final hours of the Russian assault on the city, Greim and Reitsch escaped in an aircraft hidden near the bunker.
http://www.historynet.com/air_sea/flight_technology/3038776.html?showAll=y&c=y