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Re: Kursk air raid 2.Jun.43: strange He111 with 6 crewmembers?
Hello Monaco,
yes, GQM and Dierich gives 5 men from WNr 110074. So either it is an error in the document (WIA airman was counted twice as WIA and as POW) or it was other, unknown aircraft. For example mentioned above plane from II/KG55.
Withdrawal ("Abgang") for II/KG55 in June 1943 according to "Flugzeugbestand und Bewegungsmeldungen" was 13 (11 due to enemy action and 2 without that action, apart from 1 to "Überholung"). But GQM gives only 3 lost (100% damage) and 5 damaged planes (from 45% to 10%). So not less than 5 planes weren't included in GQM list.
Maybe POW mentioned in the intelligence summary was from one of these unknown planes.
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