Luftwaffe aircraft down in Sweden 1940

[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Brian

The Bf 110 incident was on May 24th, 1940
Bf 110D-0 WNr 3154 NO+DS of 2./ZG 76 crew Fw Neurieter (F) and Stabsing. Thönes (B) and probably damaged in a combat with British Gladiators. The crew was rescued by He 59 D.ALYO from Seenotflugkommando 1 in Trondheim, led by Lt Wölke.
The incident was unknown during the war from the Swedish side and research as to what had happened did not start until the wreck was discovered in 1946.

2 June 1940
Ju 87B-2 WNr 87207 A5+IL 3./St.G 1 crewed by Fw Hans Ott(F) and Lt Günther Brack (B) shot down by AA machine gun from an armoured train. Forcelanded 14.19H 3 km east-north-east Abisko

Ju 52/3m WNr 6751 DC+SP 1./KGrzbV.106 shot down by Swedish AA fire 14.31H and very close to the Swedish/Norwegian border. Possibly from the same train as the one above.
Crew: Uffz Hans Töchler (F), Gefr Kramer (Bf) killed, Fw Franz Reichard (Bm), + 12 paratroopers: Ofw Haase (killed), Uffz Gustav Mank, Fw Walter Himmrich or Himmerich, Ufw Hermann Bansen, Hans Vorsteffel (killed), Arno Wolf, Werner Fischer (killed), Franz Langfeld (killed), Konrad Hof (killed), Walter Schnitzer (killed), Bodo Westkamp (killed), Ogefr Adolf Koch.

6 June 1940
Ju 52/3m WNr 6754 xx+Rx 2.Kp/FFS (C) 1 crewed by: Uffz Otto Reissner, Uffz Willi Riemann, Fw Ludwig Seipp, Lt Walter Sperber, all killed, shot down by a gunboat model 41 "Skagerack" and its 40 mm Bofors AA-gun m/36. Aircraft crashed on fire and was totally destroyed.

Best Regards
Stig