JGr.176 27th september 1939

[Marius]

Peter,
the Western Front is not interesting me as much as Poland. I was not digging so deeply regarding the losses in the West. But maybe you can look for more details of the death pilots at the archives at Aachen or in Berlin (WaSt).

But I am sure that some of the forum visitors could show us a document about the date of death of Uffz.Köpke. Maybe a photo of the grave or a page in a paper from that time (an obituary) or something like that.

On the other hand, if me and Shores should be wrong and the 29.9. right, what French aircraft in this area were attacked by both pilots on that particular day? I read something in the Batailles Aeriennes series and in other sources. So far no single author wrote about the type (or unit) of the attacked aircraft. And everybody is repeating the (GQM) date 29.9. without deeper research (?).

The GQM loss list for September 1939 (without any details on 1th and 4th) contains appr. 50 such date "errors"! I will ask around for Köpke`s death. Maybe we will find the hard evidence.

Marius