Joachim Brendel

Joachim Brendel was a German flying ace of World War II . Brenden was credited with 189 aerial victories . All but six of his victories were claimed over the Soviet Air Forces on the Eastern Front . Brenden was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves on 14 January 1945 . He died on 7 July 1974 in Cologne, West Germany . He was born in Ulrichshalben, present-day a borough of Ilmtal-Weinstrae, at the time in Thuringia of the Weimar Republic . He became an "ace-in-a-day" for the first time on 12 July 1943, claiming aerial victories 53 to 57 .