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WOW586 Albatros D.1 Lt Hohne

Original price was: £520.00.Current price is: £480.00.

2 in stock

Categories: Axis Forces, The Great War, Warbirds

Description

Our second Albatros WOW585 was flown by Lieutenant Otto Paul Wilhelm Höhne (30 April 1895 – 22 November 1969). Hohne was a German WWI flying ace credited with six confirmed aerial victories. He was the first pilot to score a victory while flying the Albatross D.1. He was severely wounded in action during January1917 and hospitalized for most of it due to these wounds, he returned to his unit in 1918 to command Jasta 2 which was then equipped with the Fokker Triplane, however realizing he was not fully recovered enough to command the unit he stepped aside.

Hohne flew with the Condor legion during the Spanish Civil War and then returned to service during World War II, serving in the Luftwaffe and rising to Major General. As lieutenant colonel in KG 54, he led one of the two bomber columns during the Rotterdam Blitz, but managed to abort the attack of his column at the last minute.
He also commanded a wing of KG 54 during the Battle of Britain, the invasion of Poland, and the battles over France. He was again badly injured as a passenger in the crash of a Heinkel 111 on 15 August 1941 and subsequently served as Generalmajor and commanding officer of the flight combat school in Bavaria. He was awarded the Knights Cross for his service during WW2, surviving the war he died in 1969 aged 74 years old.

His son, Joachim Höhne, served in the Luftwaffe, first as a Flak gunner and then as an Me163 Komet pilot with JG 400.

This is a limited edition of three only 1/30 scale warbirds.
The figures and accessories are shown for scale comparison purposes only and are not included.

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