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Originally Posted by andrek
Thanks @Brian and @SES for the help and the scan.
Yes @SES i tried google and the yahoo world. I also called the municipality of Paderborn. I tried the police of Paderborn to locate some old police logs, which exists in the police archive, but for the 10/5/1944 there is definitely no entry about a airplane crash in the Paderborn area. Which is very exeptional! I also tried the Paderborn town archive for some old newspaper articles or maybe photos. But no result, they don' t even have a Lent file. The municipil service of Paderborn has a very good log book archive and very helpful people, but they did not repair a power supply line in 10/1944.
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Hi,
I must admit I am a little confused by now. What precisly is it you are looking for and which you think is not available? You mentioned that you checked WIKIPEDIA with no result, this is a quote from the site:
On the 5 October 1944, Lent flew his Junkers Ju-88 G-6, coded D5+AA, to Paderborn. During the landing approach, the left engine of the plane failed and the plane hit high-voltage cables. In the ensuing crash, two of his crewmen died instantly. His radio-operator for many years, Leutnant Kubisch, died the next day. Lent himself died on 7 October 1944.
The airfield in question was Paderborn Haxterberg located just to the NE of the village of Nordborchen.
bregds
SES