Summary of career Aerial victory claims According to US historian David T. Zabecki, Kraft was credited with 56 aerial victories. Obermaier lists Kraft with 56 nocturnal aerial victories, four of which on the Eastern Front, claimed in 129 combat missions. Foreman, Parry and Mathews, authors of Luftwaffe Night Fighter Claims 1939 – 1945, researched the German Federal Archives and found records for 56 nocturnal victory claims Mathews and Foreman also published Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims, listing Kraft with 51 claims, plus five further unconfirmed claims. Awards Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (1 September 1943) 1st Class (5 November 1943) Honour Goblet of the Luftwaffe (Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe) on 1 May 1944 as Leutnant and pilot Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold (18 February 1945) German Cross in Gold on 23 July 1944 as Oberleutnant in the 8./Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Knight's Cross on 30 September 1944 as Oberleutnant and pilot in the II./Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 838th Oak Leaves on 17 April 1945 as Hauptmann and Staffelkapitän of the 12./Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 Promotions Notes References Citations Bibliography 1921 births 1994 deaths Austrian military personnel of World War II German World War II flying aces German Air Force personnel Recipients of the Gold German Cross Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Military personnel from Vienna German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom