Do17 Loss on October 11 , 1940 .
 

On 11.10.40 a Do17Z-3 7T+EK (3475) of 2 Staffel KG606 was shot down and crashed into the Irish Sea , the crew of four were all killed . Can anybody please tell me what their mission was and who shot them down , thanks.

Re: Do17 Loss on October 11 , 1940 .
 

2./ KüFlGr. 606 Dornier Do17Z-3 (3475). Shot down by F/O D.K. Watkins and F/O T.D. Williams of No. 611 Squadron during sortie to bomb Liverpool and crashed in the Irish Sea, 50 miles west of Holyhead, 6.35 p.m. FF Oberlt Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter, BO Lt zur See Horst Felber, and BF Gefr Walter Hoppmann all drowned, BM Uffz Eugen Weber missing. Aircraft 7T+EK 100% write-off.
Two bodies from this aircraft came ashore in Ireland on October 26; Horst Felber at Mosney Strand, Laytown, County Meath, and Walter Hoppmann at Clogher Head, County Louth. Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter was washed ashore at Bull Bay, Amlwch, Anglesey on November 7.

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Many thanks for your help Peter , I have contact with the family of Walter Hoppmann and want to give them some details about how he was lost .

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Hello Justin H

keeping well I hope.

I was wondering are the German families contacting you or are you having to track them down yourself?

I wonder if I added a page with names and address/towns of the German airmen in Ireland to my webpage it might attract a bit of interst and I can point anyone who contacts me in your direction.

Dennis

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Hi Dennis , good to hear from you again .
I have been tracing and contact the families myself but I as I have friends in Germany they have also helped me . This is a very slow task but can also prove to be very rewarding .
I like your idea about your webpage , could prove a winner . Drop me a PM and we can move forward .
Congrats on your new improved webpage.

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OK Justin,

here is a first draft of this page for public consumption. The place names are very dodgy, some probably being based on Irish transcriptions of places.

Even the place names from the Volksbund can take some googling to find out.

The men who are missing, they are the biggest mystery, too me at least.
http://www.skynet.ie/~dan/war/luftwaffeairmen.htm

All translation is via google so excuse that, six years leaning the language never sank in.

Re: Do17 Loss on October 11 , 1940 .
 

Well done Dennis , you have made a great start here and put in alot of work too . Give me a call when you want and I will give you some more information , keep up the good work .