German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

Hi guys

Reading a book (Crete 1941 Eyewitnessed) about the invasion of Crete, I came across a first-hand account written by a Cretan soldier who claimed shooting down a 'hydroplane' with a machine-gun, at about 7.30 hours (am/pm?) on 21 May. He wrote

".... the plane lost its balance and plunged into the shallow waters near the beach at Perivolia ....."

Any ideas?

Cheers
Brian

Re: German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

Hi Brian,

The only seaplane unit that comes in my mind is "Seenotstaffel 7" but I couldn`t find a casualty at 21.05.41.

There was also a loss at that day from "Aufklärungsstaffel X. Fliegerkorps" with:

FF. Fw. Richard Pielchen, Bf 110 (4O+DH, W.Nr. 2371) with BO. Oblt. Harald Triebel, both missed 21.05.41 Kreta .


What about that??

Re: German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

Hello Brian and Byron,

on 22 V 41 I have:
6./Seenotgruppe He.59 (W.Nr. 1518) lost with all hands

Does anyone know what this 6./Seenotgruppe might be?!


Andrzej

Re: German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

The Skz of this aircraft was TV+HZ

Re: German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

Thanks guys

Was 6/Seenotgruppe operating over Crete?

Cheers
Brian

Re: German 'seaplane' lost 21/5/41 Crete??
 

The 6th Seenotstaffel (not Gruppe) operated from Sicily in the war theater of Malta and Afrika.
For the Aegean sea was the 7th responsible. A very few number of planes of this unit (the 6th) apeared in Greece in different times.

Seenotstaffel 7 d.Lw. (14.04.41-23.10.44)aufgestellt im 03.41 in Kiel
am 14.04.41 Ankunft in Saloniki, am 07.05.41 in Phaliron mit zwei FW 58, vier He 59 und eine Ju 52 / See.
05.41Seenotstützpunkte in Molai, in Milos (Kdt. Ltn. Karl-Heinz Daehn) und ab 17.06.41 an der Sudabucht.
Together with some planes of Wekusta 76, the 7th rescued over 200 men during the battle of Crete.