Possible Bf109 losses in Channel not previously reported in Sept. 1940?

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

As part of the EoE Project, we've obtained copies of the all known surviving KTBs for the Seenotflugkommando units flying rescue missions over the Channel/North Sea during 1940. Most of them for the critical months of July and August, 1940 are missing, but we've found a lot of useful material in the KTBs that have survived. Working with these documents, two mysteries have emerged which our research team cannot explain. In each case a 109 pilot is reported to have been rescued but we cannot identify either of them in the loss lists. They are as follows:

15.9.40 He59 NE+TD rescued Oblt STRUNK (109) from PQ1132 (a Luftwaffe map grid square) between 13.10 – 14.00 (CET).

30.9.40 He59 SA+ER rescued Fhr PRODIN (109) from PQ0126 at 16.15 hours (CET).

Jochen Prien has looked at these and found no explanation for these reports. Strunk does not appear from any III./JG53 records to be the Oblt Siegfried STRONK of 8./JG53, who was shot down in England on Oct. 2, 1940. Does anyone have any information that would help us here?

Regards,