U5+KT/wnr. 5447 (9./KG2), Dieppe 1942

[bill norman]

Can anyone supply me with AI(k) Reports 238/1942, 248/1942 and 262/1942 - all of which refer to the above Do217E-4 aircraft, shot down off Dieppe on 19 August 1942? Email copies would be fine as long as I can read them. Also, if anyone has any details about the Beobachter of this aircraft (Fw. Robert Schumann, who was made PoW), I would be very pleased to hear. Fingers crossed!

[Steve49]

Bill,

No reports, but I believe he was recovered from the sea by the gunboat SGB9, together with Fw Richard Braun. (The pilot Oblt Hans Wanka was recovered by SGB8).

What is your interest in the aircraft/aircrew?

Regards

Steve

[bill norman]

Steve49,
Thanks for that. What is your source? I'm particularly interested in Schumann, the BO, who might have taken part in a daylight raid in Middlesbrough on 3 August 1942.

[Steve49]

Bill,

From the book 'The Battle of the narrow seas' by Peter C. Scott. He doen't list the aircrew by name, but at one stage his boat (SGB9) recovered two aircrew, one of whom was later transferred to LCF5 as he was 'almost drowned'. He also notes that slightly earlier SGB9 had recovered one more Luftwaffe survivor.

Lt Wanka was recovered by SGB8 at 10.22 (but at the moment I remember in which report I found this fact).

As only four POW's were recovered by the Jubilee raiding force (all from KG2) it is extremely probable that Fw Schuhmann was one of the men recovered by SGB9.

Regards

Steve

[bill norman]

Thanks, Steve.
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