Description
PORTRAIT PHOTO – FRANK FRANZ LIESENDAHL – JG2 – POSTHUMOUS KNIGHTS CROSS WINNER
Original wartime portrait photo of Frank Franz LIESENDAHL. JG2 Jagdflieger.
23.11.1935: promoted to Gefreiten
01.12.1935: promoted to Unteroffizier
23.07.1936: promoted to Fähnrich
01.10.1936: promoted to Oberfähnrich
01.04.1937: Oberfähnrich, RLM pool (Schul.Etat), promoted to Leutnant – RDA 01.04.1936
01.07.1939: Leutnant, II./ JG 53 transferred to II./ ZG 1
29.11.1939: Leutnant, RLM pool (Sch.Etat), with JGr. 101 , transferred to II. /JG 2
01.12.1939: Leutnant, II./ JG 2
01.04.1940: promoted to Oberleutnant – RDA 01.04.1940
26.05.1940: Oberleutnant in II./ JG 2, WIA/POW – Bf 109 E shot down over Dunkirk and captured
09.09.1940: Oblt., Staka 6./ JG 2
00.01.1941-20.02.1941: Oblt., Staka 6./ JG 2
10.07.1941: Oblt., 6./ JG 2 WIA – Bf 109 F in combat, force-landed at Abbeville – hospitalized for about two months
10.11.1941: Staka, 10.(Jabo)/ JG 2
29.01.1942: awarded the Ehrenpokal
01.06.1942: promoted to Hauptmann
05.06.1942: Oblt., 10./ JG 2 awarded DKiG, 10./ JG 2
00.07.1942-17.07.1942: Hauptmann, Staka, 10.(Jabo)/ JG 2
17.07.1942: Hauptmann, Staka, 10./ JG 2, KIA – Fw 190 A-3 coded ‘Blue 14’ failed to return from an attack on a freighter 2 km South East off Brixham/England and reported missing; believed shot down by Anti-Aircraft fire
04.09.1942: Hptm., awarded Ritterkreuz, Staka, 10./ JG 2
06.09.1942: his body washed up 10 km East of Berry Head, then buried at sea
Pilot credited with 142 combat missions
