Jan.14,1945, Uffz.Theo Nau (JG11) vs Lt. Rolland C. Potter (368FG)

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I´ve found this interesting article about this story in German magazine ''Jägerblatt'' that Willi Reschke gave to me during our visit.
Then I did some research on web and here is it....

On 14 January 1945 there were heavy dogfights in the Kaiserslautern area during which both German and American aircraft were shot down.

German fighter pilot Theo Nau shot down the Thunderbolt of pilot Roland C. Potter of 368 FG (397 FS), stationed at Metz in France. His plane crashed 1 km northeast of Heltersberg into a forest. Potter was found dead some days later, sitting on the ground and leaning against a tree. He must have been seriously injured and given himself morphine injections because the empty syringes were found next to the corpse. Theo Nau was also shot down shortly thereafter near Kindsbach (cf. Landstuhl area).

Please read the attached files. The text is written in pdf file so I couldn´t copy it.

Source:Zweibrücken

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Pics of Lt. Roland C. Potter

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Pics of Theo Nau
Source: Large Scale Planes

[Erich]

to add

Theo Nau was flying a 109G-14/AS, yellow 4 on this date. Nau had 3 kills to his credit before being shot down and hospitalized. JG 11 as a whole was ripped up pretty badly with US and RAF forces losing 11 plus a/c and pilots