Original Wartime Studioportrait of Oberleutnant Siegfried Rehle! Oblt. Rehle participated in a total of over 400 sorties and was posthumously awarded the Knight’s Cross in recognition of his service on February 19, 1943. Oblt. Rehle crashed near the Railway Station of Velikije-Luki, Russia, Soviet Union on December 30, 1942. He earned the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold and the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight’s Cross) while serving with the 2. Staffel/ Kampfgeschwader 53 “Legion Condor”.