Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Hello

Does anyone have a list of Luftwaffe crew who are known to have been lost over the UK, but who have no known graves?

I have a memorial card for Franz Xaver Nirschl who was lost on the 19/20th November 1940. Volume 2 of The Blitz Then and Now provides details and confirms that he was killed, but I can find no record of his burial.

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Hallo Mathsmal,
Here is what I found about Franz Xaver NIRSCHL:
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/Drucke..._1_748280.html

Cheers
Redcap50

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Hi Redcap50

The link does not work.

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Is this one working ?
http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/Krieg-..._0_748280.html

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Hi

They work both : the only difference is indicated in red colour

http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/Drucke..._1_748280.html


http://www.weltkriegsopfer.de/Krieg-..._0_748280.html

It is the same site : weltkriegsopfer !!
Bye bye
redcap50

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Thanks for this information.

It would be interesting to know how many others have no known graves. There is a list in Finding the Foe, but it only covers the period of the Battle of Britain.

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

Mathsmal,
I do not know of a complete list, but I can advise you that Unteroffizier Gerhard Rüger, pilot of 1. Staffel, Erprobungsgruppe 210, shot down on 6th September 1940, has no known grave, although the circumstances of his being shot down are well-known.

Re: Luftwaffe crew missing over UK
 

When you take into consideration those who crashed off the coast or simply went missing after take off, this would be a considerable list & as far as I am aware, no comprehensive single list exists.