5(F)./122 - loss of 24 August 1940

[Adriano Baumgartner]

According to this site (the owner is a member of this Board) http://www.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/...._122_Aug_1940

..on the 24th August, 5(F)./122 lost a Junkers 88 A (which model)? on a photographic or reconaissance mission, near the Kent Coast. It was shot down by 501 Squadron Hurricanes.

Is there any information about the werknummer, type of Ju 88 A and codes of this particular machine? Did it crash over the sea or over land, since some of the crew were later buried in England?

Thanks

A.

[John Vasco]

Believed shot down by fighters during reconnaissance sortie to Canterbury and crashed in the Channel off Boulogne.
FF Lt Meinulf Hellermann killed,
BO Lt Karl Hurck, BF Uffz Franz Schmidtler, and BM Uffz Erich Kromer all missing.

[Chris Goss]

Code & Wk Nr not recorded. Hurcks's photos were for sale on eBay earlier this year

[Adriano Baumgartner]

I thought that maybe the werknummer would appear somewhere...the Germans are so methodics and the LW as well with their records.

Thank you Gentlemen, for the kind help anyway.

A.

[Andy Mitchell]

Sorry Adriano,

Unfortunately, I have nothing further to add regarding the aircraft or markings.

Losses for 5(F)./122 during Aug - Oct 1940 included A-1s, an A-6 and an A-5.

However, regarding the crew (this from Matti Salonen)

Lt Meinulf Hellermann - recorded as buried "Bourdon/Frankreich, Block 25, Reihe 19, Grab 713"

There is a note against Uffz Franz Schmidtler to indicate that he was declared dead.

[Chris Goss]

Full details of the losses including Wk Nrs and codes did not become standards for another day or so