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Re: Do 217 K-1 WNr 4412 unit and pilot identification
Accoding to ADI(K) report 180/1944 B Oblt.Albert Hein b.13-04-1916 'Had been in KG2 for some time. He had fought in the Spanish war and wore the Spanish Cross and the Deutches Kreuz'. ADI(K) 192/1944 indicates Hein was anxious to earn the RK having completed 290 operations, it also shows his aircraft U5+KN carried a light bomb load of 10 x BC50 and 4 x LC 50 white as it was acting as a backer up to the target markers (18/19-04-1944 Ju188 U5+KN shot down near Dymchurch Kent Oblt. Hein and pilot killed 3 pows),
Brian Bines
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