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Old 30th December 2015, 17:56
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Re: Peter Stahl 6./KG30 August 1942

Brian, version was A-4 and full number was more!
Please
write Ju 88 A-4 (with spaces, as dictated by RLM).
Removing Gondola did not change designation.

0880142074 Ju 88 A-4 [TI+LL] Luftwaffe
[Special Recce machine without Gondola]
- Ju 88 A-4 [4D+GP] 6./KG 30 (Luftflotte 5 East) OPS (F) engine failure and crashed (100%) unk location (Archangelsk) [Took off at 12:30 hrs for mission to Arkangelsk but had left engine fail at 7,000 meters about 60 km east of the Murmansk Railway, over the White Sea. Pilot was unable to feather the prop, the pilot <Peter W. Stahl> then turned south to the coast, but propeller broke off the burning engine and the four crew baled out safe, just over land. The machine crashed and burned at about 14:25 hrs <unk location> about 100 km inside Soviet territory] 28.08.1942 (F Obfw. Peter Stahl, B Fw. Hans Fecht, BF Fw. Gerhard Hallert and BS Fw. Helmut Görtz mis/later all ret uninj <in LWFLV amendment v/09.09.42>)
[as A4 2074 in LWFLV losses; Full story in book by Peter W. Stahl “Zwissen Eismeer und Sahara”; wreck parts on site (before 2009)]

English version was "Diving Eagle"
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...AiAQMwgkKAowCg

Might have been also in KG 200 book ?
-Ed
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