- August Lambert
Infobox Military Person
name=August Lambert
born=birth date|1916|2|18|df=y
died=dda|1945|4|17|1916|2|18|df=y
placeofbirth=Kleestadt
placeofdeath=Kamenz
caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|Nazi GermanyNazi Germany
serviceyears=
rank=Oberleutnant
branch=Luftwaffe
commands=
unit=SchlG 1, SG 2, SG 77
battles=World War II
awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
laterwork=August Lambert (born
18 February 1916 in Kleestadt district ofDieburg -Killed in action 17 April 1945 inKamenz ) was a former dive-bomber and ground attack pilot who became aLuftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of theKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross Fellgiebel] duringWorld War II .An experienced pilot with II./
SG 2 , the unit was heavily involved in Crimean campaign during early-mid 1944, and in addition to its usual ground-attack work flew interception sorties, claiming some 247 Soviet aircraft shot down. Leutnant Lambert claimed some 70 kills during one three week period.On the morning of
April 17 ,1945 Leutnant Gerhard Bauer,Oberleutnant August Lambert, and another pilot were taking off from Kamenz for a mission to the front when American P-51Ds of the55th Fighter Group appeared. Bauer's FW 190 F-9 "Black 1 +" was quickly shot down north of Kuckau, about eight kilometres east-south-east ofKamenz . August Lambert and another 8./SG 77 pilot tried desperately to get away, but could not lose their pursuers. Lambert was shot down in FW 190 F-8 "Black 9 +" just north ofHoyerswerda , a town some 20 km north-north-east of Kamenz.Lambert was officially credited with shooting down 116 enemy aircraft, all claimed on the Eastern front.
Awards
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German Cross in Gold (1 October 1944)
*Iron Cross 2. and 1. class
*Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (14 May 1944)References
* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
* Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. "Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II" (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
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