Luftwaffe losses 1940

[Tom Semenza]

Brain,

Lt. Joachim Lange (from Prien, et al., Die Jagdfliegerverbände ...Teil 4/II)

Regards,

Tom

[Chris Goss]

...and in respect to your last question, a Hs126 was lost and one was claimed. It was on an operational sortie and I do not have the crew names. I am afraid that I do not have the exact reason for its sortie

[Brian]

Many thanks for your responses Melvin, Tom and Chris - much appreciated.

Melvin - it was actually Welte's aircraft (I obviously had the incorrect marking), so do you have full names of him and his crew, please?

Also, did you receive my PM re your offer of F/f incidents?

Cheers
Brian

[Melvin Brownless]

Hello Brian,

Here are the details from the Chronik of Siegfried Radtke;

FF Oblt Karl Welte POW (wounded)
BO Ofw Karl Meier POW
BF Gefr Walter Gehre POW

No mention of a fourth member of the crew? Can you PM me again, I did not get your last one, have had problems with my PC lately!

Regards

Melvin

[Brian]

Melvin

My error! I did not PM you - I was looking in the wrong file!

Anyway, thanks for the latest.

Cheers
Brian

[FalkeEins]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

...and in respect to your last question, a Hs126 was lost and one was claimed. It was on an operational sortie and I do not have the crew names. I am afraid that I do not have the exact reason for its sortie

..see Avions magazine issue 87 - article by Peter Taghon entitled 'Hs 126 against England' ..I don't have it to hand unfortunately

[Chris Goss]

4th crewman from the Welte crew was Kagerbauer-I contacted him some years ago and have an account/photos

[Brian Bines]

Unfortunately the Avions article does not have the 126's crew names ''helas! pas les noms ''. It does note the loss Of Sub Lt Kestin in the incident quoting 10 miles south of Hastings. The Luft Qm's list shows the loss of the 126 with no crew names so I assume they would be NCO's.

[Brian Bines]

Just got a reply from WAST the Hs126 on 1st August of 4(H)/31 was shown as being on a Kustenuberwachungsflug (unlauts over the u's) Would this be a coastal patrol flight ? Crew are shown as Fw.d.Res Ullrich Trusen, and Uffz.d.Res Werner Schulze missing from Feindflug. Uffz Schulze is then shown as buried on 13.08.1940 at the Ostfriedhof in Boulogne.

[robert]

Yes, this could be translate as coastal patrol flight.

Regards

Robert