Do17 lost on 30th October 1939

[Ota Jirovec]

Hello Remi,

I have found the Werknummer in an article devoted to the claim of P/O Mould written by Miroslav Snajdr and published in the Czech magazine HPM No. 2/2003 (which also contains a list of secondary sources). I assume the primary source for the Werknummer and the code can be e.g. the reports of the French gendarmerie from the crash site or the reports in the local press (after all, during the Sitzkrieg/Drole de guerre the air activity was not high and the wrecks could be often traced easily).

As far as the date is concerned, please note that the VDK site lists all the crew members as KIA on 30 October 1939, so I believe the date in the Verlustmeldung is probably incorrect (also, there is no matching RAF claim for 31 October).

Ota