Obergefreiter Josef Amman 1st Oct 1944

[Laurent Rizzotti]

This man is reported to have died on this date on the "Flugplatz Betschkerek-Etschka", in Banat area, Serbia.

If anyone has the personnal loss files of the Luftwaffe for this period (always forgot their German names), I would like to know if they can find an incident related to this death.

Thanks in advance

[merlin73]

Hello my name is Vladimir Agoston i am from Zrenjanin near Ecka village.
Josef Amman was killed in battle for airfield Ecka by Russians and burried on catholic cemetery in Zrenjanin,i try to find something in the archives but zero i can find insignificant data only in catholic church.I will check and reply to you.But tell me why you are interested about him,if you have some informations about Fliegerhorst kommandatur A113/XVII Grossbetschkerek please let me know.
Best regards from Vladimir

[Norbert Schuchbauer]

Hi Vladimir,
originally Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur E 32/XIII.

In October 1942 renamed Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur A 209/XII.
Reformed September 1943 in Gross Betschkerek from Fliegerhorst Kommandantur A 209/XII. On 1. April 1944 renamed Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur A (o) 113/XVII. Was disbanded in December 1944.

Hope this is what you are looking for.

Regards,

Norbert

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hello Vladimir,

My original question was asked after I found this man on the Volksbund website (searching for someone else, as often on the Web) and saw his death location indicated as an airfield. I so wondered if he was an aircrew killed in a crash or not.

Sadly I am only interested in air losses and had nothing to add about what happened on this airfield on 1 October 1944.

Best regards

[merlin73]

Here is the picture.

[merlin73]

Laurent you are not the only one who was interested in air losses i am too,i promise that i will go next week to the Roman Catholic Church to do some research because we have i can say thousands of burried German army and Luftwaffe personnel in Zrenjanin(Grossbetschkerek)

[merlin73]

On this airfield on Oct 1. 1944 was hell battle with Red Army,they are sheling the airfield like hell,but its very strange how this German soldiers stay on airfield because all of the stuff was flee 2 days before Red Army is come near airfield.Here is the picture of Russian srapnels and German bullets