Paul Schwank JU 52 pilot

[Zippy1]

Feldwebel, some sources Leutnant, Paul Schwank, JU 52 pilot. Listed killed over Crete but buried at Dionyssos.
Presumably killed or mortally wounded over the island and the aircraft was brought back to base by the co-pilot.
Does anyone have any more information, his unit for example ?

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

Not much:

Luftlandesgeschwader 1.

I./LL.G 1 Gru. Kdr, Major Stein.


20.05.41 - Tanagra, Abflug von 48 Lastenseglern, von den Flugplaetzen Eleusis und Megara nach Kreta.

Besatzungen und Verluste der Transporter Ju 52 Kreta-Unternehmen, Staffel unbekannt.

FF. Fw. Paul Schwank (+) 20.05.41

See:
Die Duetsche Luftwaffe In Greichenland im II. Weltkrieg 1941-1945.
Tesapsides,Byron
Thessaloniki:Author,2008.
p.332

If Byron doesn't know, I don't know who else you could turn to.

Col.

[Zippy1]

Thanks. He will have been one of the pilots of II/KGr zbv 1 towing I/Sturmregiments gliders in the initial attack then probably.