Talk:Johannes Steinhoff

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I don't think that guy on the picture apparently sporting no more than a smite is Johannes Steinhoff. Steinhoff was seriously burnt. Leibniz 21:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Really? Well, I must admit I havent seen any other images of him, so I just trusted the info on the Interview page. Do you know of any other images which could be used? Vir Norvegicus 22:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[1] has pictures before and after the accident. Leibniz 10:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I see what you mean about seriously burnt. I'll swap in the other pictures later today - Prob take the before in the infobox and the after beside the accident description

I suspect that the scars in that photo are dueling scars. Quite a few German officers in WWII had them.


I saw an interview with Johannes Steinhoff in a documentary "The War.Collection:How Hitler Lost the War" and he says that he was shot down only once during the battle of Britain, so the information in wiki is not correct, that says the only time he was shot down was in Mediterranian.

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The guy in the picture is Steinhoff. He was shot down and badly burned much later in December 1944 while on Defense of the Reich Duty whilst flying and Me 262. This photo graph was taken in 1942.Dapi89 16:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Steinhoff received those terrible burns in 1945 when his Me-262 suffered a tyre blow-out, crashing on take-off. So technically that's not being shot down. Those burns nonetheless didn't prevent him achieving a great career in the post WWII Luftwaffe. -- fdewaele, 12 April 2007, 18:36.

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