Gottfried dulias bio
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Dulias, Gottfried P.
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Gottfried P. Dulias: Surviving the Soviet Gulag
By Gottfried P. Dulias
Gottfried P. Dulias was a young Luftwaffe pilot who had seen plenty of action in the skies above the Eastern Front. Flying the Messerschmitt Me-109G-14/AS with Jagdgeschwader 53—known as the Pik A’s, or Ace of Spades squadron, or simply as JG 53—he shot down five enemy aircraft and became an ace.
Subsequently, he was shot down by ground fire and captured, and he spent three years in a Soviet prison camp. Dulias emigrated to the United States in 1953 and worked in residential construction and as a locksmith until his retirement in 2009. He and his wife, Hedwig, were married for 46 years until her death in 1997.
The father of three daughters, who also has two grandchildren and one great grandchild, Mr. Dulias lives today in Patchogue, New York. He and coauthor Dianna M. Popp met on the internet and later worked together to produce the book Another Bowl of Kapusta, from which this story is excerpted. Kapusta is Russian for cabbage soup, which served as a staple food for prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union.
Captured Near the Crackling ‘Gustav’
As I was passing over the front line with tracers flying by right in front of me, I had no time for evasive action and I heard loud
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LG-53 "Ace of Spades" - Fighter Wing 53 - ME-109G Fighter Pilot
The best thing about honoring my own family is that sometimes you meet other veterans who shared the same experiences as your loved ones. Except this time my experience was meeting a veteran from the other side, the German Luftwaffe. At the 2007 Battle of the Bulge reenactment held each year at Fort Indiantown Gap I met Gottfried Dulias, a Luftwaffe Pilot who was shot down in March 1945 over the Russian Front.
If I see a veteran adorned with a WWII Veteran cap, I always, always, say thank you and try to stir up a conversation. Except this time, it was a different cap, a Luftwaffe Pilot's cap. Needless to say, I could not resist saying hello. After a 45 minute conversation I leaned that Gottfried had written a book that chronicles his life and experiences of becoming a Luftwaffe Pilot and the event that changed his life, being shot down and