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Re: Hptm Mainwald 8/KG30 22.8.40
Hello Steve,
I don't know what source you are quoting but I have the following listed on 21 August 1940 ?
4./KG54 Junkers Ju88A-1 (6086). Engines damaged by AA fire during sortie to attack Brize Norton airfield then shot down by Blue Section of No.17 Squadron (S/L C.W. Williams, P/O H.A.C. Bird-Wilson, and P/O J.K. Ross) and crashed at Marsh Farm, Earnley, 4.15 p.m. BO Hptmn Lothar Maiwald (Staffelkapitän), and FF Oberfw Heinz Apollony both captured unhurt, BF Uffz Kurt Miethner, and BS Uffz Helmut Hempel both captured wounded. Aircraft B3+BM 100% write-off. (Radtke)
Due to the severity of his injuries, Helmut Hempel was repatriated to Germany in October 1943.
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