Luftwaffe over Scapa Flow

[Peter Cornwell]

Dave,

I can only offer you the following and have nothing whatsoever on your other queries. Are you sure of those dates ?

October 17, 1939: 2./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-1. Suffered direct hit by AA fire during attack on British Fleet in Scapa Flow and exploded in Pegal Burn on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands 11.15 a.m. (Ff) Oberlt Walter Flämig, (Beo) Gefr Hans Attenberger, and (Bs) Uffz Rudi Faust killed. (Bf) Uffz Fritz Ambrosius baled out and captured badly wounded and burned. Aircraft 4D+EK 100% write-off.
Remains of this aircraft, the first to crash on mainland Great Britain, and three of its crew were scattered across an area of a quarter mile. They are buried at Lyness as Unknown Airmen.

March 16, 1940: 3./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-1. Lost bearings during return flight following attack on Scapa Flow and, low on petrol, belly-landed on Magelundegård Farm near Købelev, north of Nakskov on the Danish island of Sjælland, 11.30 p.m. (Ff) Uffz Siegfried-Werner Mattner, (Beo) Obergefr Hans-Erich Voß, (Bf) Uffz Erich Klose, and (Bs) Obergefr Fritz-Wilhelm Gottlebe arrested at Birkemosegaard Farm near Vindeby on March 18 and held at Hald, near Viborg, until the German invasion on April 9. Aircraft 4D+AL fired by crew 100% write-off.