He 177 A-1 (E8+FH)

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Hallo,

What was the fate of this machine?
Was it lost in action (accident due to weather)?
Is there a werknummer for that code E8+FH?
Which was the full crew? All KIA?

A.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Seems the Search tool was not recording E8+FG properly...

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...ghlight=Gumrak

But who were the other crewmembers???

A

[Brian Bines]

I Have ;-

Ff Maj Kurt Schede
B Uffz Max Kashr
Bf Ofw Hans Nentashel
Bm Fw Fritz Langenberg
Bs Uffz Anton Muller
Bs Ogef Josef Galanski

Crew all killed He 177 A-1 E8+FH I/KG 50 5233

Regards
Brian Bines

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Brian,

My gratitude indeed for the full crew member names of the E8+FH crew...I made a typo on last message.

Thanks a lot!

A.

[Chris Goss]

Adriano: What is your interest in this as i have written about the He 177 and its link with the Hs 293 and Fw 200

[Stig Jarlevik]

Brian

Surely the unit was I./FKG 50?

Cheers
Stig

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Brian

Surely the unit was I./FKG 50?

Cheers
Stig

It certainly wasn’t NSG 9, which inherited the E8 code in November 1943! This change confused RAF Intelligence at first because they only knew of its use by FKG 50.

[Brian Bines]

Stig, thanks for pointing that out I have changed it to KG 50 as on the GQM

Best regards
Brian Bines

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Chris, my interest was only this first KG 50 crew loss and particularly Major Scheede's crew.

Sorry about the delay in answering you back....quite busy lately...

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[Rottler]

Hello,

in GQM loss return 11 Feb 1943 item 12 is listed:
16.1. I./KG 50 Feindflug, Auftrag: Gumrak, Ursache: unbekannt, He 177 5233 E8+FH
F Maj Kurt Schede (Gruppenkommandeur) vermisst
B Uffz Max Knehr vermisst
Bf Ofw Hans Hentschel vermisst
Bm Fw Fritz Langenberg vermisst
Bs Uffz Anton Müller vermisst
Bs Obgfr Josef Galewski vermisst.
Correction GQM 1 May 1943: Besatzung Major Schede gefallen.

Regards
Leo