April 45: Dillingen, Bridge over Danube

[Jabo]

Hi Pinback,

some Info to Fieseler-Action:

At april 27,1945 in the morning two Fieseler from the "Sonderkommando Bienenstock" started from A/F Mammendorf near Fürstenfeldbruck.One was flown by Feldwebel Helmut Hecht the other one by Unteroffizier Wolfgang Schippke.In both A/C two engineers with 15 Kg explosive.At 02:10 the A/Cs landed on a meadow south of Dillingen behind the lines of the US Army.The landing gears broken down.After the engineers left the landing area Hecht and Schippke met at a crossing.They don´t heard an explosion.Three days later they arrived at Mammendorf by foot !!!
But Mammendorf was now 20 Km behind the US lines.After another three days in Mammendorf Hecht and Schippke changed her uniforms with civil clothes and tryed to reach her familys.

Source: Ulricht Saft, Das bittere Ende der Luftwaffe.

Regards Jabo