Bf 109 lost on 8 May 1943

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hello,

I have a short note that "the son of the pastor of Goslar" died in the crash of a Bf 109 at Wöllersheim on 8 May 1943.

I have no name or Wnr. I searched the Volksbund data for dead that came from Goslar. There are 525 names but none on 8 May 1943. On the other hand, a pilot killed in Germany in 1943 was often buried by his family in private cemeteries and so will not be shown on the Volksbund database.

I would like to have more details, given that AFAIK Goslar is now (and probably was at the time) a town big enough to have several pastors... It is also fairly possible that the aircraft involved was not a Bf 109, but another single-engine aircraft.

So I am searching for a single-engine aircraft crashing near Wöllersheim on 8 May 1943.

Thanks in advance

[Khorat]

happend may 8th 1944, Lt. Leopold Münster of 5./JG3 killed after collided with a B-24.

khorat

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hi Khorat,

You're right, I found that Lt Leopold Münster of 5./JG 3 died in a collision with a B-24 at Woltersheim on 8 May 1944.

The two location names are close enough to be the same.

Can anyone confirm that Münster was the son of a pastor ?

[Khorat]

Hi Laurent,
Wöllersheim is the correct name of the place of crash.
sorry don´t know if he was the son of a pastor,
he was born december 13th 1920.

khorat

[ouidjat]

Hhhhmmm,

Münster was son of a pastor? OK OK keep on rolling and forgive my bad joke.....
Had not'g to do that nite!

Franck.

[rob van den nieuwendijk]

Hello,

Lt Leopold Münster, Staffelkapitän of 5./JG 3, crashed near Wöllersheim, 28 km SE of Hildesheim. Can confirm that he was not a son of a pastor.

Any more details available regarding the crash(site) etc?

Best regards,
Rob