1. Wolfgang Schellmann was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
11 Facts About Wolfgang Schellmann
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On 22 June 1941, the first day of Operation Barbarossa, Schellmann was posted as missing in action, presumed killed.
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Wolfgang Schellmann was born on 2 March 1911 in Kassel, at the time in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau in the German Empire.
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Wolfgang Schellmann joined the military service in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic in 1930.
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On 15 March 1937, Wolfgang Schellmann was appointed Staffelkapitan of the newly created 2.
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Wolfgang Schellmann claimed his first aerial victory on 18 January 1938 when he shot down a Polikarpov I-16 fighter over Teruel.
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Wolfgang Schellmann then served on the Stab flight of the newly formed IV.
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In October 1939, Wolfgang Schellmann was summoned by Generalleutnant Hubert Weise, at the time commanding general of Luftgau III in Berlin, to the Reichsluftfahrtministerium.
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That day, Wolfgang Schellmann claimed a Hurricane fighter shot down near Tanagra.
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On 22 June 1941, Wolfgang Schellmann was probably the highest profile German casualty of the opening day of Operation Barbarossa.
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Kuzmin was killed in the collision but Wolfgang Schellmann managed to bail out over Soviet territory but was never seen again.