Luftwaffe losses 1940

[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

[Brian Bines]

Thanks Robert,

Regards,

Brian Bines

[Brian]

Excellent Brian

Many thanks for sharing this information.

Best

Brian