Early Life
Gerhard Barkhorn was born in Königsberg, Prussia on 20 March 1919. He joined the Luftwaffe in 1937 as a Fahnenjunker, and started his pilot training in March 1938. Upon completion of his pilot education, he was commissioned as a Leutnant and posted to a Staffel in Jagdgeschwader 2 Richthofen, a unit with old traditions from World War I, in early 1940.
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