Photo : A/c - Werk Nr.: 701 412

[KrisJG3]

A/c - Werk Nr.: 701 412

Photo of wrack here see page 59:
Source: http://www.bous.lu/fr/Documents/Cult...deng_Krich.pdf


".... An der Nuet
vum 26. Dezember 1944 ass en HE 111 vum Transportgeschwader 30,
stationnéiert zu Zellhausen (Zwëschen Aschaffenburg a Seligenstadt um
Main) ënner der Codenummer 53-HK gestart. ..." <====== (seems to me S3-HK see link to another post below)


"...
Bemierkong:
1) De Fliger ass ongeféier 200 Meter an ëstlecher Richtong rechts niewend
dem Wee deen op den Haff féiert erofgefall.
2) Doudesdeeg vun deenen 3 sinn op hire Griewer mat 24. 25. 26.
Dezember uginn! Si leien an de Griewer B/158 - 158A a B/158 - A - 159 ...'




"...An NVM/WASt shows that He111H-20 S3+AL 701 404 fell to an allied fighter and crashed by St. Etienne, Bastogne on the 25th Dec. ..."

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=25922

[S Sheflin]

Just for interest, according to CEA265 (Crashed Enemy Aircraft report) and others, this was:
He 111 H-20 (WNr. 701412), marked S3+HK (H=red o/l white), last with 2./I./TG30. Pilot was Kniep, Fw. Heini +3. Had been carrying supplies, 45/02/01, Bous-Heesberhaff, Luxembourg.
Respectfully,
Steve Sheflin

[Nick Beale]

S3+HK was heading for La Rochelle when it was shot down.

P.S. What is the language of the document linked to, Luxembourgish?

[Brian Bines]

The NVM for S3+HK 701412 gives crew as Ff Fw Heini Kniep , B Fw Udo Fritz,
Bf Ofw Josef Kallinge, Bm Fw Hans Kraja all missing and Bd Ogef.Wilhelm Tachmann as Pow. Other reports show crash location as Heesberhaff on the German/Luxembourg border and that Tachmann ended the war in hospital at Swindon with vertebrae fractures as his parachute was damaged possibly by fire,

Regards
Brian Bines

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

S3+HK was heading for La Rochelle when it was shot down.

P.S. What is the language of the document linked to, Luxembourgish?

This is native luxemburgish. It is a dialect, related to the German language with some Dutch and little French elements. Today, it's spoken in Luxemburg, some parts of Belgium and France and in Germany in the Trier, Bitburg and Prüm area. Those, who grew up with the language, are well able to read and understand it. But in literature, this language in printed form is very rare, so you only find it in local papers or like here, in local historical publications.

Horst Weber