Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. On 7 August 1943 Werner Quast rammed his Messerschmitt Bf 109 into an Il-2 Sturmovik and was forced to bail out. He was taken prisoner by Soviet forces and was held until 1949.
He joined the postwar Luftwaffe in 1956 and died in a helicopter accident in Mittenwald on 12 July 1962.
During his career he was credited with 84 aerial victories, all on the Eastern Front. Bibliography.
