Re: Ju88 8/KG30 3 July 1940
8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-2. Shot down during armed weather-reconnaissance by Green Section of No.603Squadron (F/O B.J.G. Carbury, P/O R. Berry and P/O B.G. Stapleton) and crashed in sea off Dyce 2.15 p.m. FF Fw Otto Heidinger and BS Uffz Paul Wieczoreck both missing, BF Uffz Friedrich Rabe killed, BO Uffz Rupert Hehringlehner picked up by trawler and captured unhurt. Aircraft 4D+IS 100% write-off.
The body of Friedrich Rabe was later recovered from the sea and buried at Dyce on July 5.
8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-1. Shot down by Red Section of No.603 Squadron (S/L G.L. Denholm, P/O D. Stewart-Clarke, and Sgt I.K. Arber) and crashed in sea 25 miles north-east of Peterhead 4.15 p.m. FF Fw Robert Wilzer, BO Fw Hans-Ewald Stichler, BF Uffz Josef Sobola, and BS Gefr Helmut Frähsdorf all missing. Aircraft 100% write-off.
8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-2. Shot down by Red Section of No.603 Squadron (F/O I.S. Ritchie, P/O G.K. Gilroy and P/O J.R. Caister) during sortie off Stonehaven and crashed in sea in flames 2 miles south-east of Inverbervie 7.04 p.m. FF Lt Heinrich-Alexander Bieroth killed, BS Hptmn Werner von Schulze-Langsdorff (of III./KG30), BF Fw Willi Engelskirchen, and BO Uffz Bernhard Brüggen all missing. Aircraft 4D+NS lost.
The body of the pilot, Heinrich Alexander Bieroth, was later recovered from the sea and buried at Dyce.
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