Ju52 loss 17-5-42 Eastern Front

[Tony Kearns]

Many thanks Brian, from the little information that I have Charkow-Zurichtal is familiar.I am not familiar with the location perhaps Crimea?? In fact my knowledge of the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front is Zero. The loss may have not been reported for some weeks perhaps.
Kind regards,
Tony K

[Brian Bines]

Tony like you I have problems with Eastern Front locations mainly with the German place names not being tracable . The best I can make of the crewnames for the KGr.z.b.v 4 crew is Ff Lt. ? Arno, Bf Uffz Rudolf Amenda, Bm Uffz. ? Welte, Bs Uffz Wilhelm Kannalage all missing. The other crew of KG.z.b.v.105 were Uffz Christian Schawnger, Bf Gef. Horst Werner, Bm Ogef. ???ld Langer, Bs Ogef Richard Mattey all missing . An admendment dated the 13-7-42 then shows Gef Werner as returned to unit and Ogef. Langer as +. I don't know if your source has any crew names that might link. I have looked three months ahead but could not find an aircraft with the code you have, but a lot of these Ju52 losses are shown with no codes,

Regards

Brian Bines

[Tony Kearns]

Thanks again Brian, it is something I can work on, every little helps in the jig saw.
Regards
Tony K