nightfighter pilot Schmid / Schmidt / Schmitt (UK-version)

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello Wim,

I might be wrong but the first name of this Lt. Schmitz of the 3./NJG 1 was Ludolf and he died in March 1942. I had the same thought as you but then this Schmitz (alias Schmidt) could not have been still alive in September 1942.

So there must have been a pilot called Schmid, Schmidt or Schmitt who was with the I.NJG 1 but left no traces (for instance Abschüsse or Namentliche Verlustmeldung) before he left Venlo. I do hope that if we could fill in the details of Ofw. Herbert Schmitt (who went to England with a Ju88 in May 1943), or Hans-Joachim Schmidt (6/NJG 3, 1/NJG 5) or Hans Schmitz (4/NJG 1) or other, still unknown pilots, we might solve the problem.

The request comes from his biological son who never has known his father so I will do my very best to help him.

All the best, Marcel