JU88 (8L +HK) 5/9/1941

[alanatabz]

On Friday the 5th September 1941, A Luftwaffe Junkers JU88 (8L +HK) of Küstenfliegergruppe 906 flown by Unteroffizier Hermann Zeitsch , Flew into a hillside on Craiginour Hill which is part of the Fetteresso Forest West of Stonehaven. Zeitsch, B Lt.z.S Walter Both, Unteroffizier Werner Drexhage and Karl Loeffler were all killed. The aircrew are buried in the Dyce Old Cemetery.

Few things that I think are wrong.

Küstenfliegergruppe 906, were based in Aalborg and had He 115s, this aircraft was possibly from the Island of Sylt - Westerland one of the North Frisian islands off the Germans / Danish coast.

8L +HK is suggested to be a B&V 138 lost off Ireland in 1940?

Can anybody confirm anything on the above?

Aircraft type, and number
Departure airfield and mission
Crew ranks
Reason for crashing
Date of 5/9/41 is from Gravestone at Dyce, Aberdeen

[Merlin]

During September 1941 the deployment of the Küstenfliegergruppe 906 was:
Stab at Aalborg no aircraft
1.Staffel at Brest with He 115
2.Staffel at Westerland with Ju 88D since July
3.Staffel at Tromsö with Do 18

[RolandF]

WNr 1247, TI+MU, Ju 88D-1, 8L+HK , 2./KüFlGr 906
Ff Uffz Hermann Zeitsen+, Bo Lt Walter Both+,
Bf Uffz Karl Löffler+, Bs Uffz Drexhagen+
05.09.41 Absturz 100% n Bodenberührung b Aufkl O-Küste England b Craignour w Stonehaven, Kincardineshire/GB

WNr 386, NA+LQ, Bv 138A-1, 8L+LK, 2./KüFlGr 906,
Ff Uffz Karl Böcker, Bo Lt Heinz Claus,
Bf Uffz August Groß, Bm Uffz Karl Jenal,
Bm Uffz Paul Gems
18.11.40 Verlust 100% wg ?, MIA n Aufklärung ü Atlantik w Irland

WNr 819, Do 18D-3, 8L+HK, 2./KüFlGr 606
Ff Fw Heinrich Wraage+, Bo Lt Max Altenkrüger+,
Bf Uffz Gerhard Krause+, Bm Uffz Walter Ernst
10./11.06.40 Absturz 100% n Wasserberührung wg Blendung ü Glattwasser, versunken b Bergung v Hiskosen n Haugesund/Nor

Regards
Roland F

[alanatabz]

Thanks Chaps

I notice a spelling discrepancy. The gravestone at Dyce is for Zeitsch

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...SCH,%20HERMANN

[RolandF]

Zeitsen might be due to a bad typewriter copy with a mutilated "h".