He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Hallo,

What was the fate of this machine?
Was it lost in action (accident due to weather)?
Is there a werknummer for that code E8+FH?
Which was the full crew? All KIA?

A.

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Seems the Search tool was not recording E8+FG properly...

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...ghlight=Gumrak

But who were the other crewmembers???

A

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

I Have ;-

Ff Maj Kurt Schede
B Uffz Max Kashr
Bf Ofw Hans Nentashel
Bm Fw Fritz Langenberg
Bs Uffz Anton Muller
Bs Ogef Josef Galanski

Crew all killed He 177 A-1 E8+FH I/KG 50 5233

Regards
Brian Bines

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Brian,

My gratitude indeed for the full crew member names of the E8+FH crew...I made a typo on last message.

Thanks a lot!

A.

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Adriano: What is your interest in this as i have written about the He 177 and its link with the Hs 293 and Fw 200

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Brian

Surely the unit was I./FKG 50?

Cheers
Stig

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

It certainly wasn’t NSG 9, which inherited the E8 code in November 1943! This change confused RAF Intelligence at first because they only knew of its use by FKG 50.

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Stig, thanks for pointing that out I have changed it to KG 50 as on the GQM

Best regards
Brian Bines

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Chris, my interest was only this first KG 50 crew loss and particularly Major Scheede's crew.

Sorry about the delay in answering you back....quite busy lately...

A.

Re: He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)
 

Hello,

in GQM loss return 11 Feb 1943 item 12 is listed:
16.1. I./KG 50 Feindflug, Auftrag: Gumrak, Ursache: unbekannt, He 177 5233 E8+FH
F Maj Kurt Schede (Gruppenkommandeur) vermisst
B Uffz Max Knehr vermisst
Bf Ofw Hans Hentschel vermisst
Bm Fw Fritz Langenberg vermisst
Bs Uffz Anton Müller vermisst
Bs Obgfr Josef Galewski vermisst.
Correction GQM 1 May 1943: Besatzung Major Schede gefallen.

Regards
Leo