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Re: Do 17 Z Crash in Switzerland 14 Nov 40
Chris,
I have it listed the previous night (13 November 1940) thus:
3./KG2 Dornier Do17Z-3 (2663). Damaged by own flak on return from night sortie over London and abandoned east of Boulogne. Abandoned aircraft flew on for some four hundred miles before crashing at Geissweidli on the Fuchsberg, south-east of Willerzell in Switzerland, 10.48 p.m. FF Lt Klaus-Jürgen Schmitz and BM Fw Franz Pietsch both baled out landing slightly injured, rest of crew baled out unhurt. Aircraft U5+DL 95% damaged - write-off.
This crash resulted in a widespread manhunt by the Swiss authorities in a fruitless search for the missing crew.
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