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Old 10th December 2024, 23:56
Marcel van Heijkop Marcel van Heijkop is offline
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Re: Karl Geyr

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Originally Posted by Chris Goss View Post
Just been told that Karl, the pilot of the second Ju 188 to be shot down over the UK in October 1943 and a member of 1./KG 6, passed away in September. He was the last of my former WW2 Luftwaffe contacts and a friend of many, many years. So sad as with his passing, I no longer have any first-hand witnesses from that time. For me, very much an end of a chapter so to speak
Chris,

He must have been quite old..Do you know old exactly? NB Completely understand your feeling, miss "my" veterans also very much..(Don't think there's anybody left..)

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Marcel
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