[Brian Bines]

I believe the card for Franz Schmid says he is buried at Saloniki which as Matti says suggestd he may have been killed on the ground. GQM lists have several aircrew casaulties due to bombing at Saloniki-Sedes on the 24th June but no one of his name. If he was not aircrew could he have been a groundcrewman who sometimes flew as a Bf or Bs. His card just says he belonged to a Luftwaffe Unit rather than being a KG, JG or TG man. Would the term Gefallen rather than a Fliers Death support that he was groundcrew. I believe II and IV/LG1 were operating from Saloniki-Sedes in this period. Sometimes these cards have the date when the death notification came through rather than the actual date of death.