NVM for Ofw Arthur Trutwin, 5/JG53, lost 13.08.1940?

[Joe Potter]

Hi All,
If anyone has a copy of Trutwin's NVM are any Next of Kin details shown?
Thanks
Joe

[Adriano Baumgartner]

JOE,
Sorry to have taken so long to answer you. Only now I had the chance to visit my mother and part of my books (library stocked there), amongst them the major JG 53 History on three volumes, by JOCHEN PRIEN (who frequents this forum).
OBS: By the way a magnificent work done by him...

* Obfw Artur Trutwin shot down by Spitfires off Weymouth area at 17:10hs, crashed into the sea 100% loss - flying a E-1 model.
* 5th stafell also lost: Uffz Wilhelm Hohenfeldt POW crashed in Poole harbor, flying E-4 Green 10 + - same hour; and Fw Hans-Heinz Pfannschmidt POW, same hour, off Weymouth (E-1 Green 9 + - )
Quoted from pg. 197 - JG 53 Vol.1 by PRIEN

On PG.140 of the same book a more detailed account (I resumed a bit because it is a bit long): "The second mission of the day was flown in the afternoon. II Gruppe t/off from Guernsey(Villiaze A/F) at 16:20hs to escort Stukas from II/StG 1, while I Gruppe followed up ten min later on a free chase around Portland. I Gruppe claimed 7 kills", etc... "On the other side of the coin II Gruppe suffered considerable losses - Oblt Schulze of 4 Staffel shot over Dorchester POW with serious injuries. 5th Staffel suffered even more heavily, loosing 3 pilots: Obfw Trutwin was still aboard his a/c when it crashed into the sea off Portland following combat, etc"....(Hohenfeldt seems to have parachuted down-my comments from the book: as he drifted down into captivity in his parachute) ".
HOPE this is what you are looking for about Trutwin...not so much data though....neither a werknummer, neither a code...maybe Green 7 ??
Well this is what is written on the major work by PRIEN...
All the best and forgive me being so late in replying your question.
Adriano Baumgartner
OBS: Have you managed to find out the 3 RAF Claims on that area/location? This will give you a chance to identifying WHO shot your relative down....You can try to match it also checking the ORB's for the Squadrons involved....one of the RAF pilots certainly will quote on his Combat Report that the German pilot did not bailed out....

[Snautzer]

Copy https://www.ebay.com/itm/Copy-WW2-Lu...4AAOSwaB9f6QPr

[Chris Goss]

I wrote to him years ago but he was not interested. Noting this is a copy, it must have been disposed of by his family after his passing whenever that was

[Nick Beale]

There's the attached record card on Fold3.com.

[Chris Goss]

Quite old for a fighter pilot. I believe that his remains were recovered and incinerated but no burial hence Joe's qustion

[John Manrho]

Yes, other cards in the same source indicate that.