OSTERMANN, Max-Helmuth
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Ostermann, Max-Helmuth Date of birth:  December 11th, 1917 (Hamburg/Lower Saxony, Germany) Date of death:  August 9th, 1942 (Amossowo/Ilmensee, Eastern front) Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  Ostermann achieved 102 victories in over 300 operational sorties.       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: May 31st, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: 1940         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Leutnant Unit: Flugzeugführer 7. / Jagdgeschwader 54 Awarded on: September 4th, 1941 Details: 315th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Oberleutnant Unit: Staffelkapitän 7. / Jagdgeschwader 54 Awarded on: March 10th, 1942 Details: 81st Award.         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: April 24th, 1942         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: May 7th, 1942         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: May 14th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN Rank: Oberleutnant Unit: Staffelkapitän 7. / Jagdgeschwader 54 Awarded on: May 17th, 1942 Details: 10th Award         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Wilco Vermeer collection, the Netherlands Information source(s):   - 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 - Kurowski F., Oberleutnant Otto Kittel, Der erfolgreichste Jagdflieger des Jagdgeschwaders 54, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg, 2007