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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK
25th April 1942
Do17Z - Wn 2507
U5+GW
12./KG-2
FF - Uffz Siegfried Kuglat
BO - Gefr Karl Küster
BF - Uffz Karl Graf
BM - Uffz Hans Oskar Jansen
Lost at sea 40 miles south of Worthing at 2345.
The bodies of the last two named airmen were recovered from the sea three and a half miles SW of Shoreham on 2nd June 1942. The bodies of the pilot and observer were never recovered.
Unit assumed from an ausweis and by a dental certificate issued at Achmer and headed 12.Staffel.
Source: Luftwaffe Crash Archive Vol 9 Page 1066
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