Gerhard Herzog 3/NJG1 crew names sought

[TigerTimon]

Hello Adrian,


I./NJG 1 was at Eindhoven between 28 February - 18 March 1941, before moving to Venlo airfield.
On the night of 27-28 March, Ofw. Herzog and his Bordfunker Fw. Gross brought down a 78 Sqn Whitley and a 207 Sqn Manchester.
Sources differ from where the crew took off. Author Marcel Hogenhuis writes they took off from Venlo airfield (Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd) but author Theo Boiten writes they took off from Eindhoven (Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years).


Kind regards,
Timon

[Chris Goss]

Fw Walter Gross had been the BF to Oblt Werner Hansen the St Kap killed 10 Feb 41

[lancaster103]

20 Okt 1943 Gerhard Herzog seems to be wounded when he was struck in an airbattle, gave his crew the chance to bale out and sadly he ended up in a crash which he was killed. Can anyone tell me who was responsable for shooting down his ME110??

Many Thanks,
Adrian

[Chris Goss]

It says he collided with an RAF bomber at Kettenburg at 2030 hrs

[Rottler]

According to the GQM loss return 25 Oct 1943 item 40 his Bf 110 G 720037 collided with an enemy plane/Zusammenstoß mit Feindflugzeug. The entry "Stfw Gerhard Herzog verletzt" was corrected on 25 Nov 1943: "Stfw Herzog gefallen".

Regards
Leo

[TigerTimon]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

It says he collided with an RAF bomber at Kettenburg at 2030 hrs

This was 619 Squadron Lancaster EE114 which impacted at Oerrel, Dedelstorf, Niedersachsen.
Stfw. Herzog had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
The Bf 110 G-4 impacted at Kettenburg, Visselhövede, Niedersachsen, the crash sites lying 72 kilometres apart.


(Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943)