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Fw 190A-8/R2, W. Nr. 681420, Lt. Alfred Lausch, 8.(Sturm)/ JG 4, Welzow, Germany, September 1944

Alfred Lausch came from a Czech family in the Javorice Highlands, located in the eastern Sudetenland. After the outbreak of

the war, he was enlisted into the Luftwaffe as a German national where he flew Fw 189 reconnaissance aircraft over the Eastern

Front. Here he flew more than 300 missions. On July 26th, 1943, he was awarded the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold. After undergoing fighter training, he was assigned to the 8.(Sturm)/ JG 4 in the summer of 1944 and flew its inaugural missions on September

11th, 1944. On that day, his unit entered combat with bombers of the 13th Combat Wing. 8th USAAF that were headed for the

refineries in Ruhland. During the intercept, which today we call the Battle Over the Ore Mountains, Lt. Lausch managed to bring

down a B-17G of the 95th Bomb Group north of Chomutov. He himself was hit by an escorting P-51 and his aircraft hit the

ground near Reitzenhain on the Czech side of the Ore Mountains. The pilot did not survive. The remains of the aircraft are now

in the possession of the Museum of the Battle Over the Ore Mountains.

Lausch‘s standard camouflaged Sturmbock carried the 900 mm Defence of the Reich JG 4 black-white-black fuselage band

and on the nose the JG 4 unit marking. To aid in pilot protection, 5 mm thick armoured panels were added below the cockpit

and the windscreen was complemented by 30 mm thick glass plating. This aircraft had the armoured glass on the sides of the

sliding portion of the canopy.

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