Ofw. Karl Hiller

[John Manrho]

If the Crashed Enemy Aircraft Reports report a coordinate as crash site then that is the crash site (give or take a few 100 metres). However, it is sometimes possible that the coordinates contain a wrong number.

[Sirkmicky]

Is there any explanation why there is written {Holland} in the CER?

[John Manrho]

Hi Kris,

Sorry, I did miss your reply. You must realize that geographic knowledge of Allied troops was not always the best. Perhaps they thought they were in Holland i.s.o. Belgium? Another possibility is that the Map Reference K.490688 has a wrong number or letter.

John

[Sirkmicky]

Ofw. Karl Hiller tells in the Aérojournal-article he was pursuited by a P-51 and he was flying to the east for a while with a damaged aircraft. In the book “Bodenplatte The Luftwaffe’s Last Hope” 1./Lt. Nelson R. Jesup (flying a P-51 from Y-29) tells that he chased a FW-190 for a considerable time which fled for Germany. After a while the FW-190 went down in a spiral. Soon after, 1./Lt. Nelson R. Jesup was attacked by a Typhoon (Eindhoven base?) and he went back to Y-29. Another story from “Bodenplatte The Luftwaffe’s Last Hope” is that a Spitfire pilot from No.414 Squadron F/O Wally Woloschuk was returning to base when he succeeded in destroying a FW-190 west of Roermond at around 10hrs. Possible that Ofw. Karl Hiller's late FW-190, coming from Y-29, wanted to get home after the initial attack? Maybe those individual stories are related to each other? This can declare the notation in the the ADI(K) No.149/1945 that he was shot down by a Spitfire. Though the hour “about 0900 hours” in the the ADI(K) No.149/1945 seems not match with "around 10hrs."…