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Old 10th September 2023, 12:30
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Re: Death of Maj Kurt Schede I/KG 50

To bring this to a close, I have been sent this by another source which was originally supplied by a Flak officer at the time:
"On January 16, around 1200hrs, an Air Force major arrived in a pilot's blue station wagon to the makeshift infirmary in Yeshovka, 7 km south of Gumrak. He asked me where he could take two wounded crew members for medical care. The major also made the following statements: He was the Gr Kdr of an He 177 unit and had only been in Zaporozhye for a few days. He was attacked by six fighters and forced to belly land after the supply bombs were dropped. Two of his crew were wounded, one slightly and the other seriously. His crew behaved in an exemplary manner. He had to destroy his plane. He also asked about a connection to the VIII Air Corps and wanted to go to Gumrak Air Base himself. Then he left".

"Another witness reports that the machine was pursued by Russian fighters at an altitude of around 100-400m and that it was constantly turning.
Dr. Trurnit reported: “…The crew drove a vehicle to Gumrak Air Base. It stopped 3 km northeast in the Talovoy Gorge near one of our vehicles that had broken down there. During this stay, a direct bomb killed Maj. Schede and his crew. This happened around 1600hrs in complete darkness.”
Therefore the Ukranian crash is not Schede's and in any case how could his EKM etc be in an aircraft which was destroyed by him after crash-landing?
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