Thanks for the info. Still though, there were no Waffen SS in the Luftwaffe. It seems to be a fact that he earned his Ek's flying missions.

What I would like to know is whom did he fly with? What unit was he attached to? Why was he allowed to fly combat missions to begin with since early in his career, he was already too valuble to be used for combat which apparently Hitler or someone also realized? At that time he also had had his dealings with Canaris and the Abwehr and would have been very foolish for someone like him to fly combat missions.

This is a case like what Doolittle did. He was a General commanding air units but insisted on flying combat missions. That was very irrisponsible of him. Had he been shot down and captured would be unthinkable. It would have been an excellent coo for the Germans. Doolittle almost was courtmarshalled for his free-spirited ways.