[Reiner]

Hello

According to my information Ofw.Walter Baker is missing since 5.12.1944, see VBL LH304. Where Willi Reschke had the information that Baker fell over Prenzlau, he could never tell me. For more than 25 years I have collected the war grave lists from my home region, the Uckermark, and my main interest is the airbattle on 5.12.1944. For this date, and matching the JG301, there is only one unidentified pilot lying in the cemetery of Finow. At the dead, only the number of his flare gun is known and it is believed that it is Fw.Helmut Tschorn. In the NVM only Uffz.Karl Alt with loss location Prenzlau is specified. But he is buried in Finow. His exact place of death is unknown to me, but i believe it could be Briest, N. of Angermünde. In Prenzlau Leyer, Kreil and Becker from JG301 are buried and there is no unknown airman here. Years ago I got a hint to a Fw190 crash near Kasekow, OSO of Prenzlau. Two 17-year-old boys were the first at the crash site and found a dead Oberfeldwebel. All circumstances from the stories, weather, air combat and period fit on 5.12.1944. Unfortunately, I have nothing more to determine. neither to the whereabouts of the dead or otherwise.
Lt Reiche and Uffz.Reiche, I think it's two different people.
Best regards, Rene Millert