[Peter Cornwell]

7./LG1 Junkers Ju88A-5 (3197). Shot down over St Georges’s Channel by Red Section of No.79 Squadron (S/L J.H. Heyworth, P/O R.W. Clarke, and P/O G.H. Nelson-Edwards) during sortie to Warrington and crashed 50 miles north-west of St David’s Head 6.45p.m. BF Uffz Rudi Wächtler killed, FF Fw Josef Krings, BO Uffz Friedrich Wurm, and BS Oberfhr Heinz Vanselow all missing. Aircraft L1+DR 100% write-off.
The body of Rudi Wächtler was washed ashore at Clonellard, north of Courtown Harbour, County Wexford, on October 20 and buried in Clonattin Cemetery at Gorey.