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bakerman

24th April 2007 17:03

Loss of Hptm. Hennings, 10./KG 4, 28-April-1942 over the Channel

Hi friends !
"He111H-5, WNr. 4034, 5J+MU, 10./KG 4, 28-april-1942, 100% Feindflug.
HENNINGS, Hptm. Eberhard, Staffelkapitän. MIA with crew.
Cause unknown, Kanal (Gen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #5)-Vol. 8). "

Searching for more details, can anyone help me, please?
Name of the crew, mission started in... (Avord/France ?), was that a mission by night etc.

EBERHARD HENNINGS was posthumously awarded with the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross (14-5-42)

Brian Bines

24th April 2007 18:18

Re: Loss of Hptm. Hennings, 10./KG 4, 28-April-1942 over the Channel

There was an attack on York on the night of 28/29-4-42. A Beaufighter crew of 68 Sqd. chased a He 111 for 50 miles and claimed it as probaly destroyed off the Dutch coast in the early hours of the 29th.

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