|
|
|||||||
| Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces Please use this forum to discuss the German Luftwaffe and the Air Forces of its Allies. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#9
7th May 2007, 09:11
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Ju88 loss, 25 May 1941?
The ./506 KTB gives 25/26 May: Löhr should have returned in the early hours of 26 May - but didn't. His task was to patrol Newcastle-Whitby, which makes me wonder whether the Ju88 did crash off the Norfolk coast. There is the likelihood that Uffz H. Biesterfeld, listed in Blitz vol.3 p35 and in the IWGC list of German War Graves in the UK as being buried in St Mary's churchyard, Great Bircham, Norfolk, was a member of Löhr's crew - though the KTB gives Uffz Paul Biesterfeld. If they are one and the same, and given that Biesterfeld was buried under the date 29 June 1941, I suspect that Biesterfeld's corpse had been at sea for some time and had drifted south to the point where it was eventually found.
|
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| FAA Albacore loss on 4 July 1941 | Edelweiss | Allied and Soviet Air Forces | 0 | 27th April 2007 22:24 |
| KG 76 loss location June 5, 1941 | cbe2009 | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 5 | 23rd October 2006 17:10 |
| Loss of He111 of 7/KG27 on 7th May 1941 | Larry | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 0 | 26th September 2006 01:13 |
| No.138 Sqdn Polish Loss 7/8th Nov 1941 ? | Smudger Smith | Allied and Soviet Air Forces | 6 | 7th October 2005 14:46 |
| Ju88 of Ergänzungskampfgruppe 4 (ErgKGr 4) loss 04.40? | markjsheppard | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 1 | 25th January 2005 01:25 |
Threaded Mode