Help with early nightfighter loss

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

The EoE team is in the process of transcribing the combat mission and aircraft data from several hundred German aircrew flight logs from the 1939-40 war period. This is to supplement our efforts to acquire and translate into English all the KTBs that are known to exist from all Luftwaffe combat and combat support units from this same period. This effort has yielded hundreds of new entries or revisions to our loss/damages/casualty listings in our comprehensive EoE Luftwaffe loss DB, including the following:

"9 July 1940: 1./NJG1 Dornier Do17. Abandoned during night fighter sortie from Düsseldorf 12.30 a.m. Exact circumstances not recorded. FF Fw Adolf Iburg and BF Uffz [ ] Hagmeier both baled out unhurt. Aircraft 2N+CH a write-off.
Iburg was an instructor at the Zerstorerschule Düsseldorf recently formed from elements of I./ZG1. He later transferred to day fighter operations and was shot down and captured on 20 October while flying with 9./JG54."

1) Peter Cornwell thinks that this listing of a Do17 might be an erroneous reference to a Bf110. Can anyone confirm one way or the other? Only two crewmen would suggest a Bf110, and this was a former Zerstörer combat crew but the FB entry says this was a Do17.

2) Can anyone supply any additional details about what happened?

3) Can anyone supply the first name for Uffz Hagmeier?

As a note, anyone who has copies of Luft FB from the 1939-40 period that they would be willing to make available to the project, your help would be much appreciated. This is one of the ways that we are filling in large amounts of data on mission times, target locations and plane coding information/WNr that has been lost when most of the KTBs and mission records from the WC/FC and the Battle of Britain were lost during the war. If my TOCH PM mailbox is full, which it almost always is, just post your name here to contact you, and I'll return a PM you with my direct email address. We can then correspond to see if we already have any particular FB in our DB or not. Many members of this board have already contributed their FB collections to this effort, and I thank them, but we know of many more FB that we don't yet have and there are probably many more that we don't even know exist. We believe that by pooling our efforts, this will result in a much more complete and accurate history of that period, to the overwhelming benefit of everyone involved in researching this field.

As always, thanks for your help.

Regards,