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Re: Need info on two Luft. pilots from II./KG30 that attacked the Lancastria on 17.06.40

10 May 1940 :
Reported to II./KG 30 at Oldenburg with crew of Uffz Gross B, Uffz Harras Bf & Gefr Arndt Bs. Meeting with Leo Krantz.

11 May 1940 :
Tried to join Leo Krantz in 1./KG 30, but detailed to 5./KG 30 which sustained heavy losses, 2 StaKa and 3 crews are missing. ( total 5 crews ??? )

14 May 1940 :
Reported to 5./KG 30's StaKa Oblt Schneider.

17 May 1940, Perleberg :
Transfered from 5./KG 30 to 4./KG 30 under Hptm Haas.

15 June 1940 :
Detailed to 5./KG 30 again.
Flew with Fw Friedrich in a kette led by Fw Lorbeer to Le Coulot.
T/O Le Coulot (with half-full tanks) at 1630 to Amiens.
T/O Amiens (with full tanks) at 1900.
(I'm not that sure that Hptm Peters was from 5./KG 30)

16 June 1940 :
T/O Le Coulot (dicey with full tanks) at 1245 to attack a bridge at Tours.
With Lt Mann in a kette led by Oblt Stoffregen followed by a rotte of Fw Erkens and Uffz Schröder. (again mention of his crew member Gross). Landed at 1710, Lt Mann missing.

17 june 1940 :
T/O at 1500.
(Only mention of two new??? members of his crew, Moritz and Jupp and of Uffz Geffgen skid-landing on his 4x250 Kgs underwing bombs.)
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