III./KG.26 loss 27/28 July 1942

[rob van den nieuwendijk]

Hello Dennis,

The Ju88 crashed at Zwarte Pad (volkstuintjes) in municipal Leiden at 03.55 hours (local time) in the night of 27 - 28 July 1942. This is near the former fireworks Kat at the Haarlemmerweg/Leiden. All this is very close to municipal Oegstgeest.

Initially of the crew one was killed and three were badly wounded and were taken to Academisch Ziekenhuis at Leiden; here two more members died soon.

Of the crew Lt Kurt Günther Desamari, Uffz Rudolf Spinnler and Uffz Ehrenfried Basel initially buried at Groene Kerkje in Oegstgeest on 31 July 1942. After the war all reburied at Ysselsteyn/Limburg.

Uffz Hans-Herbert Vogt survived the crash; he was badbly wounded. On 24 May 1944 he died during a USA bombraid on Beaumont airfield. At that time he was Bordmechanist at Transport- and Verbindungsstaffel of Generalkommando IX. Fliegerkorps.

Best wishes,
Rob