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Originally Posted by Jochen Prien
Dear Nick, Frank and Kaczmarek,
many thanks for your input. According to the evening op-reports of 3rd JD from 24 and 26 September 1944 however it is clear, that the loss occured on the 24th and that Rydwald was admitted to hospital in Recklinghausen, where he died from his wounds on the 25th as stated in the evening report on the 26th.
And we still have to solve the location issue - Döbeln is a place in Saxony not far from Dresden and cannot have anything to do with a sortie flown over the Arnheim - Nijmegen battlegrounds.
So for the time being we have FhjFw. Rydwald as lost nit due to enemy action on the 24th at an u/i location, dying from his wounds on the 25th in a Recklinghausen hospital.
What about the place called Duiven in Dutch which is pronounced in a remotely similar way as Döbeln ?
KR
Jochen Prien
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Jochen,
Verlustmeldung says: In der luft zerplatzt, Ausstieg und am 25. Sept.44 in Prosperhospital Recklinghausen verstorben.
Feindbeobachtung: nein
I am in possession of a book written in 1947 about the Duiven area which gives the following statement about september 25, 1944:
Tuesday, 26 september 1944
Yesterday two parachutist landed in this area,... The first one was dead the other landed on a hospital at Duiven and was badly wounded admitted to this hospital.....
In april 2006 we (ARGA) excavated an Me 109G-14 at Groessen, SW of Duiven which engine had exploded, we found one cylinder bank and the 2cm cannon barrel ......
We also found yellow paint on the wreckage....
Regards,
Karl Lusink
ARGA