LANG, Friedrich (LW-Flieger)
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Lang, Friedrich (LW-Flieger) Date of birth:  January 12th, 1915 (Mährisch Trübau/Sudetenland, Germany) Date of death:  December 29th, 2003 (Hanover/Lower Saxony, Germany) Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  Friedrich Lang fought in Poland, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. He flew a total of 108 operational sorties.       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: October 1939         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: May 1940         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: Flugzeugführer 1. / Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 “Immelmann” Awarded on: November 23rd, 1941 Details: 376th Award.         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: 1. / Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 Awarded on: April 24th, 1942 Details: Award 1/48.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: Staffelkapitän 1. / Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 “Immelmann” Awarded on: November 21st, 1942 Details: 148th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN Rank: Major Unit: Kommandeur III. / Schlachtgeschwader 1 Awarded on: July 2nd, 1944 Details: 74th Award.         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001 - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X