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W.Nr. 1016, Lt. Johannes Geismann, CO of 1./KG 77, Catania, Sicily, September 1942
Lt. Gerhard Brenner, CO of 1./LG 1, Eleusis, Greece, March 1942
Johannes Geismann was born on June 20, 1920,
in Hattingen in the Ruhr region and voluntarily
enlisted in the Luftwaffe on November 15, 1939.
After flight training, he was assigned to 1. Staffel
KGr. 606 in the summer of 1941, specializing in
attacks against shipping convoys. Geismann
achieved his first success against ships on
August 29, 1941, and his score kept growing even
after the unit was transferred to Catania Airport
in Sicily in December 1941. In September 1942,
the unit was renamed 1./KG 77, and in December
1942, Lt. Geismann received the Knight's
Cross for sinking 98,000 BRT of enemy ships.
He continued sinking ships until August
1944, when he completed fighter training and
subsequently transferred to the night fighter
IV./NJG 1. He lived to see the end of the war
and after the war joined the re-established
Bundesluftwaffe, from which he retired on
September 30, 1979, with the rank of Oberst im
Generalstab. He passed away on August 15, 1994,
in Aurich.
Gerhard Brenner, a native of Ludwigsburg in
Württemberg, was born on August 29, 1918.
On November 3, 1937, he joined the Luftwaffe
and, after training, was assigned on November
28, 1939, to 2./LG 1, which was armed with
Heinkel He 111s at the time. At the beginning
of 1940, the unit received new Junkers Ju 88A
aircraft, with which it participated in campaigns
against France, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, and
Greece. In May 1941, during the fighting against
shipping convoys in the Mediterranean, he hit
a British cruiser, and in July 1941 he was
awarded the Knight's Cross. On June 14, 1942,
luck abandoned Oblt. Gerhard Brenner's crew,
after being hit by anti-aircraft fire during an
attack on a convoy and its escort transporting
supplies to hard-hit Malta, they were forced
to abandon their aircraft 100 kilometers south
of Crete. Part of the crew got into lifeboats,
but they probably drowned in a storm south of
the Gavdos island. The crew was never found...
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