Hugo Broch (born 6 January 1922) is the last living German Luftwaffe flying ace of the Second World War.
[3] In January 1943, he arrived on the Eastern Front to serve in World War II as part of Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54—54th Fighter Wing) Grünherz (Green Heart), and he claimed his first victory two months later.
[4] Following World War II, Broch became an employee with Agfa in Leverkusen.
[6][7] At age 95, he fulfilled a long-held ambition to fly in a Spitfire, the two seat Tr.9 MJ627.
The Luftwaffe grid map (Jägermeldenetz) covered all of Europe, western Russia and North Africa and was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude, an area of about 360 square miles (930 km2).