Thread: Luftwaffe Pilot beat to death March 1945
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Old 1st May 2025, 18:17
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Re: Luftwaffe Pilot beat to death March 1945
In the loss table of the JaPo book Fw 190 D Part II is noted:
Fw 190 D WNr. 500393 2.3.45 1./JG 2 yellow 10 Obfhr Werner Stempel KIA Stockhausen/Lahn, shot down in the Mainz area by USAAF P-47s and P-51s, escorting 9 AF B-26s attacking the Wehrmacht fuel depots in Gießen: parachute malfunction; pilot fell in Lahn river and drowned; buried in the Stockhausen cemetery.
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