I am pretty upset right now, a few weeks ago, I discovered that a map that I was given by the family of Wolfgang Vagler, who was a tank buster ace and flew wing man for his Commanding Officer was stolen from me up to a year, or year and 1/2 ago is missing. I was given this, along with his medals, by a woman who was his cousin, shortly before she died. She summoned me to her house in Pennsylvania, and gave me the map, a letter from his Commander, given to his family, along with his medals. Her husband was also a stuka pilot, and they were life long friends of my mother and our family, my mother is German, and was a telephone operator during the war. She worked with the woman who gave me these items, along with her husband's medals and dagger. Wolfgang took a news reporter up for a mission and on the return flight, he was hit by flak. He landed the plane perfectly, but hit a rock or something and the plane nose dived into the ground. German recon troops came across the enemy lines to rescue them, the reporter survived, but the pilot, Wolfgang Vagler, was killed. He was impaled on the stick. He was left behind, and has never been found, nor reported to the authorities, so he is still out there, sitting in the plane. I told his cousin, the only survivor of their family, that some day, when I could afford to do it, I would try to find him, and give him a proper burial. I only showed the map and things to a few people, it is a map with a dot on it, and nothing else, a map, in German, ............. I had it sitting with a few other maps, so the person who stole it had seen it. They broke into my house and stole it. I have guns, coins, and military stuff all over the place.... no one is going to steal a map with a dot on it.............
I do not know how to make it worth it, for anyone to contact me with information about it's whereabouts, but I do know who it was that stole it, I am about 95% sure. Any help would be greatly appriciated, please pass this around, and get as many people to read it as possible. Somehow, I will make it worth your while to assist me.
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