BF 109-F4. Black 4, W.Nr 8653. Gruppe II Staffel 5./JG3 'Udet'. As flown by Hauptmann Joachim Kirschner over the USSR 1942.
Kirschner scored 188 aerial victories over 635 combat missions. He was also very effective at disrupting ground targets.
On December 17 1943 , he was shot down but bailed out safely , only to be killed by Yugoslav partisans.
He aged 23.