ME-109 Mistel squadron

Crash-landed Messerschmitt Bf-110. Near Warsaw/Poland, 1939.

Crash-landed Bf-110

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (July 2, 1916 – December 18, 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II. Rudel is famous for being the most highly decorated German serviceman of the war. Hans-Ulrich Rudel WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO BE AWARDED the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.
Rudel accomplished 2,530 combat missions and successfully attacked many tanks, trains, ships, and other ground targets, claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed - including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery guns, a destroyer, two cruisers, a battleship and 9 aircraft which he shot down.
After the war he became a successful businessman in post-war Germany.
Rudel died in Rosenheim in 1982, and was buried in Dornhausen.