9 April 1940 Ju52 3./KGrzbV.103 shot down

[Knut Larsson]

Hello Brian
It was the Ju 52, PF + PU that was brought down over the outer Oslofjord, with 4 safe and 1 killed.

Onboard was
- Fw. Wolf Mensenich pilot (landed successfully at Fornebu earlier)
- Uffz. Johann Brehm stern gunner
and as passenger this crew from destroyed Ju 52 WNr. 2463 NG + VD
- Fw. Alfred Steenhold (pilot)
- Uffz. Biemer
- Gfr. Christian Röhrs

They took of from airfield Fornebu with fuel enough to reach airfield Aalborg West in Denmark. The flew low level and at the beginning of Skagerrak the became aware of a naval unit who soon openerd fire and hit the Ju 52. Burning the pilot put the aircraft down to do a successfully landing on the sea. Four of the crew was picked up alive from the water by Wachtschiff 703 and 707. However Uffz. Brehm jumped out of the aircraft in panic in 10th meters high and in a speed of 130 km/h. Wachtschiff 709 found him soon after in the sea but he was badly injured and died 2 hours after he was picked up.

Knut