[edNorth]

Hi :

I have this info, your member of 3./KG 30 might have been involved in this loss. First known loss of life by KG 30 - stated a day late perhaps?
(or baleout ocurring around midnight?)

.... Ju 88 A I/KG 30 (Luftflotte 2)
OPS (F) missing (100%) from operation in the North Sea [was hit by warships AA fire and later crashed in the North Sea <nr Viking Bank> ´near Kamp´] 09.10.1939 (Oblt. Konrad Kahl and three mis; two baled out and survived, two killed)

[see Shores & co-authors: ´Fledgling Eagles´ P.85 and Carsten Petrsen in ´Tyske Fly I Danmark´ Vol.3 (He 111 and Ju 88) P.8: This was when force of 127 He 111 of Stab, I and II/KG 26, II and III/LG 1, together with 21 Ju 88 of I/KG 30 were sent out after Royal Navy Warships in the Nort Sea. Four Ju 88 and a few of the He 111 found the ships in conditions of bad visibility but scored no confirmed hits. Two He 111´s landing out of fuel in Denmark afterwards (they were 1H+NM near Nymindegab and 1H+LM at Fanö, both of 4./KG 26). This was the first operational loss of an Ju 88 ~ Shore´s say it of 3./KG 30; nr Viking Bank fm other source. This operation costing Luftwaffe one Ju 88, three He 111, one He 59 flotplane and one Do 18 flying boat.]

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ed