Gents,
I'm looking for some help please regarding the JU88 which crashed on the 25th or the 26th of March 1945. The aircraft was flown by a pilot and crew from Group IV of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 (Night Fighter Squadron 6). The target was the bridge at or near Oppenheim which was in American hands at the time. Peter Spoden who was also a pilot in NJG6 remembered this mission saying they received very heavy anti-aircraft fire from US troops from the ground. Two more aircraft (Me 110) went missing and many were damaged.
The particular JU88 I'm asking about was flown by Oberfeldwebel Hermann Scherer and was badly shot up in the attack. According to family sources and information from the surviving crew, he brought the aircraft away from the area and climbed high enough for the rest of the crew to bale out (they all survived the war) but he was wounded and didn't make it, perhaps going down with the aircraft. The official diaries record that the aircraft went missing in the area between Oppenheim to the north and Worms / Haßloch to the south. I'm trying to discover where the aircraft crashed and whether the pilot was in it, or if he parachuted out but didn't survive. His body was finally interred in the German war cemetery at Andilly near Metz in northern France so perhaps his body and/or the aircraft landed in France?
I'm aware of some brilliant help I received some time ago on this forum, and thanks for that but now I'm just trying to fill in some of the blanks so any help or information you could supply would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
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Originally Posted by RodM
Hi,
I believe Scherer crashed at or near Hassloch, immediately east of Rüsselheim and some 12 kilometres NE of the crash site at Hessenau.
Cheers
Rod
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