Where and how to start to research a bomber pilot

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TFB,

If you have the flyers name that will at least be a good start, it will allow the other board members to determine, if possible, his other crew members, aircraft Wrk nr, reason for damage/ crash etc.. It will also be useful to determine if he was awarded any higher orders etc.

It appears as though he was killed in 1941??

Assuming he was killed you may want to search this site

http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/content_suche.asp

for information as to where he is buried. Do you by any chance have scans of some of the documents, flugbucher etc.? Also do you have the Wehrpas or Soldbuch of this gent?

There is a unit history on KG51 done originally in German and later in English (though unfortunately in abbreviated form). I don’t have the book in front of me at the moment but I believe it included loss listings by Gruppe.

Regards

Jeremy