GL10 Major Klaus Häberlen Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross hand signed 5 x 7 black and white photograph

Each photo measures 5" by 7" with a white border on all sides with the signature handsigned on the specially elongated bottom margin.
The photograph is from the 1939-1945 period and has been reproduced and then signed by Major Klaus Häberlen Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. The photo is accompanied by a brief career history.
This signed photo forms part of a limited edition of Iron Crosses of the Luftwaffe signed Photograph Series. This is number 10 in the series of  25 Photographs so far issued, produced by ourselves. Each photograph has been handsigned and they are all numbered and certified on the reverse. Each photograph is a limited edition of 210. 

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Major Klaus Häberlen Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

Born  14.04.1916 in Geislingen / Steige
RK  20.06.1943

Joined the Reichswehr as an officer candidate in April 1935 and served with the 3rd Prussian motorised battalion based in Döberitz - Elsgrund.  In December 1935 he was accepted as an Officer candidate and attended the Military College at Hannover.  In September 1936 he went to the bomber observer school at Lechfeld, and having completed his training was posed to III./KG 255 stationed at Memmingberg in April 1937 and promoted to Leutnant.  In January 1939 he attended the Air Warfare School at Werder, promoted to Oberleutnant in October and graduated August 1940.  He spent a month with 4. KG z.g.V. 102, before joining III./KG 51 as an Adjutant in October 1940.  In April 1942 he was promoted to Hauptmann, and in July he moved to IV./KG 51 as a Staffel Leader, by December he had become Staffelkapitän. He was promoted Major in October 1943 and in January 1944  became Feldluftgaukommando XXVIII, IA.  In October 1944 he became Adjutant to the General der Kampfflieger, followed by Luftgaukommando in March 1945.  On the 3 May 1945 he was taken as a POW by the US Army and held at Bad Aibling until he was released on the 20 June 1945.  He had flown over 300 missions.

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