Gefreiter Willi Wanderer of KG76

[Peter Cook]

In RAF Biggin Hill – the Other Side of the Bump, author Peter Osborne reproduces an account by Gefreiter Willi Wanderer of the high-level attack on Biggin Hill on 18 August 1940 by Do 17s of KG76. Does anyong know what Staffel he flew with, and what his role was?

Peter

[Chris Goss]

No mention in KG 76 losses, KG 76 Association, EP and DKiG book. Thought he might be a war reporter but nothing

[Peter Cook]

Thanks Chris,

I see that you helped with photos for Osborne's book. I wonder where he got the Wanderer quote from?

Peter

[Nick Beale]

According to Alfred Price’s “Battle of Britain, The Hardest Day”, Wanderer was a Gefreiter air-gunner with II./KG 1 who flew the high-altitude attack while III./KG 76 went in low.

Price quotes him twice in the book’s account of the Kenley raid.

[Peter Cook]

Thanks Nick,

I found the references in Mason, the question for me remains which is correct II/KG1 or KG76? On balance I am leaning towards Mason and II/KG1.

Peter

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Peter Cook

Thanks Nick,

I found the references in Mason, the question for me remains which is correct II/KG1 or KG76? On balance I am leaning towards Mason and II/KG1.

Peter

Price puts him in an He 111 of II./KG 1 but doesn’t list him among the people he himself interviewed. This suggests he was relying on a third-party source.