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24th February 2011, 22:26
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Re: Information Concerning Gef. Josef Perl - lost over England on 20.07.1940/41
Taken from The Blitz Then & Now Vol I, Edited by Winston Ramsey, (After the Battle):
Friday July 19th 1940 - 1./KG40 Focke-Wulf Fw200C. Brought down by AA fire during a mine laying sortie and crashed into the North Sea between Hartlepool and Sunderland 11:55 PM Fw H Kulken and Fw K Nicholai both captured unhurt. Fw W Meyer killed. Hptm R Stesszyn (Staffel-Kapitan), Gefr S Zaunig and Gefr J Perl all missing believed killed. Aircraft F8+EH lost. The body of Willy Meyer was later washed ashore on the Yorkshire coast and originally buried at Driffield. Undercarriage leg trawled ashore and now in the North-East Aircraft Museum? 
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