Ju88 8/KG30 3 July 1940

[Brian]

Hi guys

I have a note that three Ju88s of 8/KG30 were lost on 3 July 1940

4D+IS (Heidinger & crew)

4D+NS (Bieroth & crew)

plus one more.

Were only two lost?

Cheers
Brian

[Brian Bines]

My notes also have the crew of Ff. Fw Robert Wilzer of 8/KG30 missing in combat with 603 Sqd. this day.

[Jaap Woortman]

3-7-40 Battle over Britain. Pg.137.
....and in Norway KG26 and KG30 commenced fairly regular operations
over Britain from Stavanger.
The most successful pilots on 3rd July were those of No. 603 (City
of Edinburgh) Squadron which was at this early stage of the Battle
operating Sections and Flights of Spitfires at Dyce, Montrose and
Turnhouse. At 13.46 hours Green Section (Fg.Off. B.J.G. Carbury,
Plt.Off.R.Berry and Plt.Off. B.Stapleton) was ordered off to
investigate an aircraft in the neighbourhood of Montrose and found
a Junkers Ju 88A-2 of 8 Staffel, KG 30, which they shot down into
the sea. Three of the crew were seen to survive the combat. At about
16.15 hours Red Section (Sqdn. Ldr.G.L.Denholm, Plt.Off. D.Stewart-
Clark and Sgt.I.K.Arber) intercepted another Ju 88 from the same
Staffel, twenty-five miles north-east of Peterhead; in shooting this
aircraft down, all three Spitfires suffered damage from the German
gunners.
8./KG30 Approx. 16.15 hrs. Ju88A-2 Crew Hptm.von Langsdorf, Ltn.
Buroth + Two crew missing.

Jaap Woortman

[Peter Cornwell]

8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-2. Shot down during armed weather-reconnaissance by Green Section of No.603Squadron (F/O B.J.G. Carbury, P/O R. Berry and P/O B.G. Stapleton) and crashed in sea off Dyce 2.15 p.m. FF Fw Otto Heidinger and BS Uffz Paul Wieczoreck both missing, BF Uffz Friedrich Rabe killed, BO Uffz Rupert Hehringlehner picked up by trawler and captured unhurt. Aircraft 4D+IS 100% write-off.
The body of Friedrich Rabe was later recovered from the sea and buried at Dyce on July 5.

8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-1. Shot down by Red Section of No.603 Squadron (S/L G.L. Denholm, P/O D. Stewart-Clarke, and Sgt I.K. Arber) and crashed in sea 25 miles north-east of Peterhead 4.15 p.m. FF Fw Robert Wilzer, BO Fw Hans-Ewald Stichler, BF Uffz Josef Sobola, and BS Gefr Helmut Frähsdorf all missing. Aircraft 100% write-off.

8./KG30 Junkers Ju88A-2. Shot down by Red Section of No.603 Squadron (F/O I.S. Ritchie, P/O G.K. Gilroy and P/O J.R. Caister) during sortie off Stonehaven and crashed in sea in flames 2 miles south-east of Inverbervie 7.04 p.m. FF Lt Heinrich-Alexander Bieroth killed, BS Hptmn Werner von Schulze-Langsdorff (of III./KG30), BF Fw Willi Engelskirchen, and BO Uffz Bernhard Brüggen all missing. Aircraft 4D+NS lost.
The body of the pilot, Heinrich Alexander Bieroth, was later recovered from the sea and buried at Dyce.