Hello Jochen,
the Luftwaffe losses gathered by Michael Balss give two crashes for the II. Gruppe/Transportgeschwader 3 on that date. The two Junkers were engaged in a supply operation to Deilinghofen airfield in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
In a
Forum der Wehrmacht thread, someone by the name of streak98 asks if people know more about these operations in April 1945, and if wounded have been evacuated from the
Ruhrkessel.
Kessel is something like 'pocket' I presume?
https://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/i...el-april-1945/
A user by the name of Ingo give the following chronicles of the
Transportflieger:
7./8.4.45 Abgebrochener Einsatz mit Ju52 Ladung:Werkzeugmaschinenteile für Munitionsfertigung
8./9.4.45 Landung von Ju52 in Iserlohn-Deilinghofen Ladung: Werkzeugmaschinenteile
9./10.4.45 4 Ju52 Landung Deilinghofen mit Versorgungsgütern; 6 Ju 52 Abwurf von Lebensmitteln
11./12.4.45 Einsatz von 13 Ju52 mit Versorgungsgütern Landung Deilinghofen
12./13.4.45 17 Ju52 Landung Deilinghofen
13./14.4.45 Keine Landungen mehr möglich. 8 Ju52 Abwurf von Versorgungsgütern
Ingo also says:
Auf den o.a. Flügen von Deilinghofen wurden vor allem "wichtige Unterlagen" und Feldpost ausgeflogen.
It is therefore not sure if wounded passengers were also transported.
The two crashes I could find were (cause of the crash both unknown):
5./TG 3
location: Einbeck area
according to Google Maps, the centres of Einbeck and Hildesheim are roughly 35 kilometres apart as the crow flies
operation:
Versorgung Kessel Deilinghofen: supply operation pocket (or: encircled area) Deilinghofen
Ju 52 /3m g10e / WNr. 10053 / 4V+BN
total loss (100%)
(FF) Ofw. Scheid, Engelbert gefallen
(B) Fw. Weinhold, Ernst-Karl gefallen
(Bf) Fw. Walter, Bernhard gefallen
(Bm) Ofw. Dralle, August vermisst
sources: Liste (M.S.); VDK
II./TG 3
location: Deilinghofen (Kessel)
operation:
Versorgung Kessel Deilinghofen: supply operation pocket (or: encircled area) Deilinghofen
Ju 52 /3m / WNr. 131155 / 4V+NR
total loss (100%)
(FF) Fw. Kaiser, Günther gefallen
(B) Uffz. Fally, Werner vermisst
(Bf) Uffz. Salewski, Heinrich gefallen
(Bm) Ofw. Vockel, Josef vermisst
source: Liste (M.S.)
Very well possible he was on one of these aircraft.