Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series, HA7414, Fw 190A-6 "White 2" flown by Gefreiter Gerhard Vivroux Sturmstaffel 1, Dortmund, February 1944.
On October 19, 1943 a special unit of 18 volunteers was
formed and called “Sturmstaffel 1” and
Gerhard Vivroux joined the unit that same day. Their task was to stop the
heavily armed USAAF Bomber
Units. “Sturmstaffel 1” was originally based at Dortmund until February 29, 1944 when they moved to
Salzwedel.
The unit was originally equipped with FW-190A-6s and Vivroux was assigned “White 2”.
On March 4, 1944 Vivroux scored his first of 11 victories, a B-17. Ten victories were
bombers and his 11th and final was a P-51. On October 6, 1944 Vivroux was hit by fire from a
bomber but managed to land his FW-190 but died the next day at age 21.
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