{"id":1378,"date":"2015-09-28T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2015-09-28T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:55:10","slug":"bf-109g-6-w-nr-15-909-flown-by-hptm-gerhard-barkhorn-co-of-ii-jg-52-eastern-front-september-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Bf 109G-6, W.Nr. 15 909, Flown by Hptm. Gerhard Barkhorn, CO of II.\/JG 52, Eastern Front, September, 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bf 109G-6, W.Nr. 15 909, Flown by Hptm. Gerhard Barkhorn, CO of II.\/JG 52, Eastern Front, September, 1943<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The personal aircraft of Gerhard Barkhorn, the CO of II.\/JG 52, was manufactured by the Erla factory. At least a part of Erla G-6 production utilized the cowling\u00a0designed for the G-5 version with an additional small bump on the right side. The name \u2018Christl\u2019 is a reference to Barkhorn\u00b4s wife Christa. The black double\u00a0chevron identifies the Gruppe\u2019s CO aircraft. Barkhorn achieved 301 aerial victories during WWII, all of them as a member of JG 52, putting him in second place\u00a0among German fighter aces. The first victim was downed on July 2, 1940 and the last on January 5, 1945. In 1945, Barkhorn became the CO of JG 6 and flew\u00a0Me 262 jet fighters as a member of JV 44 shortly before the German surrender. In the post war era he joined Bundesluftwaffe. Barkhorn was awarded the\u00a0Knight\u00b4s Cross on August 23, 1942 with Oak Leaves (on January 11, 1944) and Swords (on March 2, 1944).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?page_id=1377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1618-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1618\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1618-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1618-676x451.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bf 109G-6, W.Nr. 15 909, Flown by Hptm. Gerhard Barkhorn, CO of II.\/JG 52, Eastern Front, September, 1943 The personal aircraft of Gerhard Barkhorn, the CO of II.\/JG 52, was manufactured by the Erla factory. At least a part of Erla G-6 production utilized the cowling\u00a0designed for the G-5 version with an additional small bump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=1378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bf 109G-6, W.Nr. 15 909, Flown by Hptm. Gerhard Barkhorn, CO of II.\/JG 52, Eastern Front, September, 1943<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}