Ján Gerthofer

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| name = Ján Gerthofer

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|5|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Láb, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|8|9|1910|5|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Podbrezová, Czechoslovakia

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| allegiance = Slovakia

| branch = Slovak Air Force

| serviceyears = 1939–1944

| rank = First lieutenant (nadporučík)

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| unit = 13 JG 52

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| awards = War Victory Cross
Iron Cross, 1st Class

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Ján Gerthofer (27 May 1910 – 9 August 1991) was a Slovak war pilot. He was the third-highest scoring fighter ace from Slovakia during World War II. He accumulated 26 kills.{{cite web |url=http://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/58469#211083 |title=Gerthofer, Ján : G |newspaper=Forum.valka.cz |date= |author= |access-date= September 9, 2015}}

Gerthofer had joined the Czechoslovak Air Force in 1927 flying bombers. In 1939, he became a pilot in the Air Force of newly independent Slovakia. After completing training on Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft in October 1942,{{sfn|Rajlich|Boshniakov|Mandjukov|2004|p=67}} he was appointed deputy commanding officer of 13 JG 52, the Slovak air contingent on the Eastern Front. In 175 sorties he shot down 26 Soviet aircraft.{{sfn|Rajlich|Boshniakov|Mandjukov|2004|p=67}}

In the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944, Gerthofer joined the insurgents, but was taken prisoner on 31 August and spent the rest of the war in Stalag XVIII-A.{{sfn|Rajlich|Boshniakov|Mandjukov|2004|p=67}}

After the war, Gerthofer served in the re–formed Czechoslovak Air Force before being discharged for political reasons in 1951.{{sfn|Rajlich|Boshniakov|Mandjukov|2004|p=67}}