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Re: 7./KG4 Newcastle on Tyne 02.07.1940
Larry,
No correction necessary. Current entry in the loss lists stands as follows:
7./KG4 Junkers Ju88A-1 (5066). Engine damaged by AA fire during daylight sortie to attack the Vickers-Armstrong Elswick works at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Caught fire during return flight resulting in crash-landing on moorland at Kleinhesel, near Jheringsfehn, north-east of Leer. FF Uffz Wilhelm Knobling, BO Uffz Gerhard Lewandowski, BF Uffz Hans Krahn, and BM Gefr Karl Rauchfuß all badly injured. Aircraft 5J+BR 85% damaged - write-off.
Possibly the aircraft that attempted to bomb oil storage tanks at Jarrow 6.15 p.m. the primary target being shrouded in low cloud and heavily protected by a balloon barrage. The bombs missed and exploded in a working-class district 300 yards west of the intended target causing thirteen civilian deaths, with 123 more injured, and many others rendered homeless.
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