Signed Photo Postcard of Luftwaffe Pilot Werner Baumbach, Recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords and the Pilot Observer Badge with Diamonds

The wartime signed photo measures approximately 3-1/2 inches by 5-1/2 inches. Excellent condition, with a bit of paper residue on the reverse.

Werner Baumbach (27 December 1916 – 20 October 1953) was a Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War II. He commanded the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) of the Luftwaffe. Baumbach received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for the destruction of over 300,000 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping. After the war, Baumbach spent three years as a prisoner of war before he moved to Argentina, where he worked as a test pilot. He died in a plane crash on 20 October 1953 near Berazategui, while evaluating a British Lancaster bomber for the Argentine Air Force. He was interred in his hometown, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony. The street “Werner-Baumbach-Straße” in Cloppenburg was named after him.