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Info Eduard - November 2010
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HISTORY
He was actually better known by another nickname
of ‘Wimmersal’ in reference to the ballad ‘Der Knappe
Wimmersal’ that had to do with a medieval knight that
not only had a long sword, but something else that had
garnered the attention of numerous local ladies. You get
the picture, and Heino was self aware enough to use
this nickname not only during radio communications,
(it would’ve been great to see the face of the radio
operator on the other end, hearing this for the first time),
but also had the name painted on his Bf 109 next to
his consistently personal emblem. His colleagues often
spoke and wrote of him referring to him as ‘Wimmersal’.
It is necessary to add that the radio code was at
times suspended by Sachsenberg. This was recalled
by ‘Bonifazius’ Düttmann (152 kills) of 5./JG 52. During
a combat event together with ‘Wimmersal’, they were
identified by the Soviets, and they reverted temporarily to
the Staffel codes and sequence of crew schedules - ‘Six
One’ and ‘Five One’.
Stress, intensive constant combat and specific
behavioral patterns of ‘Wimmersal’ himself led to
a nervous breakdown in August, 1943. Surviving this
critical time was evidently not a simple matter, and it
has been reported that he was taken from the unit in
a straightjacket. At this point in time, Sachsenberg had
38 aerial victories to his credit, and was the seventh most
successful II./JG 52 pilot in combat. Over the course of
October he was awarded an Honorary Cup for results
above and beyond the call of duty in aerial combat,
as well as the German Cross in gold.
Heino returned to the 6 th Staffel in the fall of 1943 at
a time when it was based in the eastern section of the
Crimean. The new CO of the Staffel was Helmut Lipfert,
who was ready and willing to tolerate Sachsenberg’s
peculiarities. Among the pieces worth noting from this
period was the capture of an 3rd IAK Yak fighter that
was forced to land by Sachsenberg. Over the course
of some intensive air combat up to the end of March,
1944, he shot down a list of other enemy aircraft and his
tally stopped at 76. He was nominated for the Knight’s
Cross, and even received a vacation, but the award was
ultimately not given. His several week-long absence from
his unit was also possibly the result of the death of his
brother Gotthard.
‘Wimmersal’ returned back to II./JG 52 at the start of
May, when it covered the axis evacuation of Sevastopol in
the west section of the Crimean. Over a three day period,
he shot down ten aircraft, six of which were downed on
one day.
AGAINST THE AMERICANS
Shortly after the defeat in the Crimean, II./JG 52
relocated to Romania. Their main adversary over this
region and later, Hungary, was the Soviets, but Heino
and his unit were meeting the Americans with increasing
frequency. Often, there were co-ordinated actions with
Rudel’s Schlachtgeschwader 2. During combat over
northeastern Romania, Heino Sachsenberg would
achieve fifteen kills at the end of May and the beginning of
June, 1944, five of them on June 8 th. With that, he would
hit 100 kills (making him the 76 th fighter pilot to achieve
this number) and the very next day, he was awarded the
Knight’s Cross. At the end of May, Gruppenkommandeur
Barkhorn was seriously wounded by Soviet fighters,
and Sachsenberg didn’t emerge unscathed. On June 3
rd, after combat with Airacobras, he was forced into an
emergency landing at his home field.
Several days later, on June 11 th, Heino Sachsenberg
very nearly cost his friend Lipfert his life. During combat
against American bombers, he flew along with Lipfert,
who was the pair leader, and managed to hit a Boeing B-
17. All of a sudden, tracer rounds started dancing around
his cockpit. The source of these wasn’t an American
fighter, but rather his comrade Sachsenberg, who,
in firing at a Boeing, lost sight of where his superior was,
and fired helter skelter. The kill was credited to Lipfert,
who managed to survive his friend’s help.
At that time, Sachsenberg tended to poke fun at the
Knight’s Cross. He claimed that its holders will, after
the final victory, find themselves in the expanse of the
east, and was virtually certain that all will have a chance
to ‘civilize the farthest reaches of Siberia’.
Sachsenberg returned after an absence of several
weeks at the end of August to Romania, as a Leutnant.
In the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, he managed to
shoot down a Boston on August 22. On the same day,
the careless Wimmersal was found with an enemy fighter
on his six, which was shot down by Lipfert. Sachsenberg
was unaware of the situation, and couldn’t even confirm
the kill!
The next day, Heino was shot down in combat with
four Soviet fighters. (
Note 3) It was apparently in the same
event where Lipfert and another pilot downed one Yak
each. Even Lipfert suffered hits, but survived unscathed.
Sachsenberg was worse off, as in his attempts
to maneuver out of danger, he several times clipped
some trees, and ended up bellying in. (
Note 4) He suffered
serious injuries, reportedly even due to a phosphorous
munition, and didn’t return to his unit until the spring of
1945 in Hungary. His former 6. Staffel at the time flew
with the markings of 7./JG 52, and was led by Heinz
‘Esau’ Ewald (84 victories), who joined the unit about
a year after Sachsenberg. They found themselves in
a most peculiar situation. Lt Ewald was returning from
successful combat with Mustangs of the 325 th FG on
March 1 st. As luck would have it, he was misidentified
by anti-aircraft crews as a Soviet marauder and promptly
shot him down. Even though fear of local Mustangs kept
him at a low altitude, he was able to miraculously bail
out of his aircraft. And just so he wouldn’t forget this
day, German infantry mistakenly opened fire on him
from the nearby railway station, and he was attacked by
a Hungarian horde with pitchforks and shovels yelling
‘Ruski kaputt!!’ A shocked Ewald was loaded into
a vehicle by a very angry Sachsenberg, who also visited
the anti-aircraft unit that was responsible for shooting
Lipfert down, and notified them of his feelings towards
them. He ended with something to the effect that ’ for
shooting at my greatest friend Esau, you complete
morons, the best desert for you is a hand grenade!’
Immediately prior to the ensuing explosion, the shocked
artillery unit managed to escape in the nick of time.
NOTE 3: It is often reported that he was shot down by four
Mustangs. However, the Americans did not operate in this
airspace on this day, and it is very likely that the aircraft were
Soviet.
NOTE 4: Bf 109G-6 (W.Nr. 166 233) Yellow ‘1’. The photo-
graph of this plane prior to delivery to II./JG 52, appeared
a while back in an internet auction. On the rudder, there is a two
digit number as an identifier during delivery. It is equipped with
a drop tank, a low rudder, and a modernised ‘Erla’ canopy.
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