[Brian Bines]

Luftwaffe Aircraft shot down over the Baltic coast in the area covered by the Ranger flown by S/L Scherf and S/L Cleveland were as follows :-

1/ He 111 P CX+ND 2851 of FFS B 35
FF Lt Karl-Heinz Vogt - mentioned in Luft.Officers Career summaries
Bf Uffz Karl Richard
Bm Ogef Harry Obst
Sch Fw Oskar Bunts
Sch Gef Alois Gruber
Shot over the sea south of Gedser Head crew all missing

2/ Fw190 A8 680163 12/JG 3
Uffz Johannes Staasser killed
Crashed by Zingst - see JG 3 loss list

3/ Fw 58 D1 2127 BsSchule 1 based Rahmel
FF Ofw Hoffmann wounded
Bs Flg Friedrich Zeiner killed
Sch Gef Rudolf Henker missing
Sch Flg Sepp Tschunt killed
Shot down over the sea over Prohner-Wiek Bay N/W Stralsund

4/ Arado 66 B1 1885 JG 103
Ff killed
Shot down east of Parow A/F

5/ Si 204 D1 281561 FFS B 2
Ff Uffz Guntermann
Bf Uffz Werner Walter ?
Bw Uffz Bauer
Sch Uffz Borchert Erwin ?
Sch Uffz Duckstein Fritz ?
Sch Uffz Reiff
Shot down between Stralsund and Güstrow crew all killed

Scherf claimed a He111 over the sea, a Fw 190 at Zingst , a He 177 over the sea, a He 123 over the bay and a Ju 86 south of Stralsund . No He177 appears to have been lost , Scherf reported that one man baled out from his victim maybe the Fw 58 from which the only survivor came .

S/L Cleveland caimed two aircraft destroyed over the RT but then lost an engine to Flak and made for Sweden apparantly ditching but he made it ashore . He was interned but his Ob. F/Sgt Day was lost .