Glunz, Adolf

     
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Glunz Glunz
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Adolf Adolf
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11.06.1916 Mecklenburg /
11.06.1916 Mecklenburg /
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01.08.2002 Lüdenscheid
01.08.2002 Lüdenscheid
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veliteľ 5./JG 26 Commander of 5./JG 26
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- německé stíhací eso 2. sv. v. se 71 sestřely
- nositel Rytířského kříže Železného kříže s dubovou ratolestí
- nikdy nebyl zraněn ani sestřelen
- german fighter ace of WW2 with 71 claims
- recipient of Knights Cross with Oak Leaves
- never wounded or shot down
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Oberleutnant Adolf "Adi" Glunz


Name: 11.6.1916, Bresegard, Krs. Ludwigslust/Mecklenburg
March: 01.2.2002 Lüdenscheid


One of the most successful fighters on the Western Front. A pilot who was never defeated by the enemy in aerial combat.



Adolf Glunz was born on 11 June 1916 in the small village of Bresegard in the northern German district of Lugwiglust in Mecklenburg.
Glunz joined the Luftwaffe on 1 September 1939. After completing pilot training, he joined JG 52 on 9 November 1940.


He began his career as a fighter pilot with the 4th Squadron of JG 52.
On May 7, 1941, a swarm of 4th Squadron JG 52 flew a deep attack on Lympne airfield in England. The swarm, led by Oblt. Simsch made several attacks on parked aircraft. Gefr. Adolf Glunz flying in a Bf-109F-2 manages to shoot down one Spitfire over the airfield. It was his first victory. He achieved another success on May 19, 1941, and was again overwhelmed by a single Spitfire.
By the end of May, JG 52 was moved from the coastal channel to the eastern border with the USSR. There it awaited the start of Operation Barbarossa. After the outbreak of war with Russia (22 June 1941), Glunz managed to shoot down 3 enemy aircraft by the end of June.


Based on these successes, he was transferred back to the front to the canal (reportedly at the request of JG 26 and became a member of the 4th Squadron. The loser is again a Spitfire. By the end of 1941, it had scored two more kills. The overwhelmed were again Spitfires of the RAF.
Adolf Glunz's first success in 1942 was the shoot down of a Spitfire on 9 January. During 1942, Glunz managed to rack up a total of 15 victories (all Spitfires), and his tally stood at 23 kills.

On the evening of 28 March 1943, an alarm was raised at Vitry airfield. The returning company of the 6th Squadron, led by Uffz. Wilhelm Mayer spotted a Mosquit flying at ground level towards Dunkirk. A cash pair of Fw immediately took off from Vitra. Adolf Glunz, to protect their own field airfield. Glunz, followed by his number, climbed to an altitude of 1,000 metres and spotted the six Mosquit below. Glunz lowered the nose of his Fw-190A-4 and swooped down from the elevation onto the unsuspecting Mosquito. He selected the last aircraft in the formation and opened fire. After a short burst, he transferred fire to the aircraft at the head of the formation. After the pass, he pulled the control stick to his belly with all his strength and his Fockewulf shot skyward. When Glunz looked down at the ground, he saw two columns of smoke rising into the sky. Both Mosquitoes shattered against the ground. The attack lasted only one minute. It was his 28th and 29th victories.


Glunz achieved his 30th victory on April 3, 1943. Glunz shot down his first four-engine bomber on April 5, 1943. It was a B-17of the 306. BG USAAF.


On August 29, 1943, Feldwebel Adolf Glunz, the only NCO of JG 26, was awarded the Knight's Cross. At the time, he had forty victories to his credit.


His fifth opponent was shot down by Glunz on December 21, 1943. He was subsequently promoted to Oberfeldwebel and from 15 January 1944 held the position of commander of the 5th Squadron of JG 26.


The most successful day for Adolf Glunz was 22 February 1944. II. Group JG 26 assembled at Laon-Athies airfield at around 9am. Here they waited for the incoming bomber formation. Finally, Glunz's unit was given permission to take off around noon. The Fockewulfs took off and began to climb. The USAAF bombers were tasked with bombing aerospace facilities in central Germany and Regensburg. The bomber groups were unable to form up due to bad weather over England, and the entire formation flew widely spread out. The fighter escorts, consisting of P-47s, were at a lower level, after a dogfight with the aircraft of I Group JG 26, and were just gaining altitude when II Group reached the lone bombers. Group JG 26 which included Ofw. Glunz. The bombers were at that point without the protection of a fighter escort, and the Germans were going to take advantage of that.
Glunz, who led the 5th Squadron, chose a lone formation of six B-17 machines that flew somewhat off to the side of the main stream of the bomber formation. At 12:50, Glunz called for an attack. When the huge fuselage of the bomber appeared in his sights, he pulled the triggers to fire all his weapons. The weapons of his Fockewulf Fw-190A-7 began spewing lead. The missiles drilled into the wings and fuselage of the huge bomber. The bomber's right internal engine began to burn. The Glunz kept firing and the missiles continued to hit the right wing spar. Just as a collision was imminent, Glunz ducked and dove his machine under the bomber's belly. The stricken American machine flew for a while longer, but then its right wing broke off just short of the fuselage and the B-17 disappeared in rolls into the clouds.
Glunz used his speed to immediately gain altitude and began to look for more prey. At 12:55, he attacked another B-17 flying in formation with several other machines. Glunz opened fire from a distance of three hundred yards and did not stop firing until he had to dodge to avoid colliding with his target. The hit bomber's two engines began to smoke, dropped out of formation and began to lose altitude. Eventually, it disappeared into the clouds.
Glunz again began to gain altitude and approached another group of bombers. He repeated his previous attack at 13:10 and another four-engine machine dropped out of the formation and disappeared into the clouds with its engines damaged. By this time Glunz and his colleagues were running low on ammunition and also had just enough fuel to return safely. One by one they began to disengage from the fight.
After landing, the Fockewulfs were immediately rearmed and their tanks filled with high-octane fuel. As the bomber formation began to return, the pilots of JG 26 took off again against the returning machines. This time Glunz took off at the head of his squadron from Venlo airfield. As the Fockewulfs climbed toward the bombers, they were met by their escort of P-47s. Glunz managed to shoot down one Thunderbold of the 78 in flames at 3:30 p.m. on the first attack. FG. Five minutes later, just as he gained the necessary altitude, at 15:35 he was attacking a formation of B-17 bombers. He managed to shoot one down after a long burst. The bomber crashed southwest of Grevensbroich. Five minutes later, at 15:40, he attacked another B-17 and fired the rest of his ordnance into it. After ninety minutes of flight, Ofw. Glunz landed safely at his airfield.
Ofw. Glunz claimed a total of six kills for the day, two of which were so-called detachments from the formation. Glunz was eventually officially credited with shooting down a B-17 at 12:50 p.m., separating from formation at 1:10 p.m., shooting down a P-47 at 3:30 p.m., and shooting down a B-17 at 15:35.



Between March 3 and March 18, 1944, Glunz commanded the 6th Squadron of JG 26.
In early April 1944, Glunz was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. On
June 10, 1944, Glunz shot down three P-47 Thunderbolts from 365 in one flight. FG USAAF.


On June 24, 1944, Lt. Adolf Glunz with the Oak Branches to the Knight's Cross for his 65 kills.


Adolf Glunz achieved his last kill on 1 January 1945 during Operation Bodenplatte. The target of II./JG 26 was the Belgian airfield of Brussels-Evcre. When the unit arrived over the airfield, a morning patrol of three Spitfires from 403rd Squadron RAF had just taken off. Glunz spotted the taking off machines and dove headlong into the takeoffs. In the scope of his Fw-190D-9, one of the Spitfires was zooming in. The moment the undercarriage wheels of the takeoff machine retracted, it was hit by a precision burst from Glunz's weapons. The stricken Spitfire crashed at the end of the runway and exploded in a burst of flames. It was Glunz's 71st win overall. Glunz then conducted a total of nine raids on the airfield in which he set five Allied aircraft on fire and severely damaged two others.


On March 18, 1945, Lt. Glunz was transferred to III./EJG 2 for retraining as a jet Me 262. Upon completion of his retraining, Glunz was assigned to JG 7 armed with these modern machines.
Whether he made any combat flights in the Me 262 is unknown to me.


Glunz flew a total of 574 combat missions during the war. Of these, he engaged the enemy on 238 occasions. He scored a total of 71 officially recognized victories (more than 15 more unrecognized), including 19 four-engine bombers. His luck never deserted him, so he was never wounded or shot down. Curiously, the only injury he suffered during the war was a cut from a shattered window glass during an enemy raid on Abbeville in April 1942. For this injury, he received the wounding award.


Resources:
Donald Caldwell - JG 26 War Diary, Silverbird 2001
Josef Priller - JG 26 Fighter Squadron, Mustang 1995
Pavel Berger - 10800 kills, Ares p.r.o. 2001
Werner Girbig - Twilight of the Fighters, Mustang 1995
www.luftwaffe.cz
Glunz, Adolf - Barevná foto Adolfa Glunze
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Barevná foto Adolfa Glunze
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Několik foto Adolfa Glunze z mého E-archivu.
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Bokarys Glunzova Fw-190A-7 z mého E-archivu.
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Foto ze serevru luftwaffe.cz zachycuje Adolfa glunze před jeho Fw-190A-7 W.Nr. 642 527 "bílá 9" po šesti sestřelech ze dne 22.2.1944.
Glunz, Adolf - Glunz u svého FW-190A-7 W.Nr. 642 527 bílá 9 dne 22.2.1944
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Glunz u svého FW-190A-7 W.Nr. 642 527 "bílá 9" dne 22.2.1944
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Glunz v leteké výstroji se záchrannou plovací vestou 1944
Glunz, Adolf - Obrázek A. Glunze pochází z mého E-archivu.

Obrázek A. Glunze pochází z mého E-archivu.
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