Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

The recent Kagero book on Condors gives the following losses 29-1-1941 crew of Ltn. Alfred Winter missing, 31-1-1942 F8+MH 0093 crew of Ofw. Bornefeld shot down, 1-5-1942 F8+AD 0012 missing, and 23-1-1943 F8+CC 0204 crew of Oblt. Rebensburg missing. Could anyone comfirm and give crew details of these losses please,

Thanks

Brian Bines

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Brian, here's a couple. Some of the data conflicts with what you listed.

Fw200C-40120Gall, Oblt. Siegfried
10.KG 40wei§ AF8+AUNT+BT
01-May-42Reported lost, cause unknown. Crew returned.
AtlantikGen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #6)-Vol. 9
on beach at Apulia/Portugal100%F


Fw200C-30093Bornefeld, Ofw. Werner
1.KG 40
F8+MHKE+IR
31-Jan-42KIA, cause unknown. 5 crewmen MIA.
AtlantikGen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #5)-Vol. 8

100%F

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Thanks John some of the other losses in the book do not tie in with what I have from other sources, so thanks for the info. on these two,

Regards

Brian

Now found Oblt. Ernst Rebensberg in F8+CL w.n. 0204 missing off Norway on 17-1-1944

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

29 Jan 41, Lt Alfred Winter (BF) was killed in combat with Sunderland G of 210 sqn
31 Jan 42: Ofw Werner Bornefeld & crew shot down by corvette Genistra off Bloody Foreland; Bornefeld's body was washed ashore 6 Mar 42
Oblt Werner Rebensburg & crew were lost 17 Jan 44!

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Thanks for the info Chris,

Regards

Brian Bines

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Chris,
According to Irish DRS Bornefeld's body was washed ashore at Bunbeg Co. Donegal on 14 February 1942 and buried there. His remains were later transferred to the German War Cemetery at Glencree near Dublin. I was of the opinion that the FW200 F8+MH 0093 was lost on the early morning of the 1st February 1942 and Bornefeld's date in the German War Graves Commission list states the 1st as does his grave marker in Glencree. Does anyone have the names of the rest of the crew?
Tony K

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

F8+MH was reported lost 31 Jan 42 so that could be overnight 31-1 Feb 42; what do you have on the claim from the Genistra? Rest of the crew was Fw Rolf Wenkhaus, Fw Walter Gasser, Uffz Willi Rosier, Ofw Walter Schlosser, Gefr Wolfgang Klocke all missing

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Thanks for crew details, sorry I do not have anything on Genistra. Irish sources did state that a convoy including a troopship (US) passed into Lough Foyle and later proceeded into Derry. This is a likely connection.
Tony K

Re: Help with Fw 200 Condor Losses
 

Hello Tony, As a novice to these records, could I ask please what are "the Irish DRS".?