[Rainer]

In my opinion the loss of D7+FN is unrelated to the friendly fire incident of U-243 because this aircraft was lost somewhere between Jan Mayen and Trondheim while the U-boat shot down a Ju88 southwest of Bergen.

I've updated our page about the first and last patrol of U-243 and added more information about the downing of the Ju88: http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_4350.html

The incident took place in the naval grid AN2911 at 02.05 hours on 11 June. This position is about 40 nautical miles southwest of Bergen. Only a few details are known as the U-boat was lost later on this patrol and unfortunately the name of the rescued airman is not mentioned in the sources available to me, but it is stated that he was the radio operator of a Ju88.

So if the Ju88 involved in the incident wasn’t D7+FN of Wekusta 5, which aircraft could it be? As mentioned by Peter D. Evans the Wekusta 3 flew from Stavanger-Sola, but no losses are recorded from this unit for the day in question. Wekusta 3 was formed at Stavanger from “Wetterkette Südnorwegen” in September 1944 (or January 1944?) which had been a detachment of Wekusta 1/ObdL. Now the “Flugzeugbestand und Bewegungsmeldungen” for the latter unit (http://www.ww2.dk/oob/bestand/aufkl/bw1obdl.html) show the loss of a Ju88D-1 of “Wetterkette Südnorwegen” in June 1944. Does anyone know more details about the loss of this Ju88? Could this be the aircraft shot down by U-243?