German fighter pilot Joachim Müncheberg in the cockpit of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A aircraft of the Nazi Luftwaffe.
Joachim Müncheberg won 135 air victories during the war years (33 on the Eastern Front).
Joachim Müncheberg died on the 23rd of 1943 when he could not avoid collision with the wreckage of the Spitfire fighter from the American Fighter Group 52 FG. The wounded Joachim Müncheberg managed to parachute off his plane and land. However, on the same day he died of his wounds.
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