Unknown Luftwaffe Crew

[Chris Goss]

I have had the attached photos for some years and shows a bomber/recce crew captured in North Africa. Bit of a long shot but has anyone seen this before or have any clues to who they might be?

[RT]

Uniform not useless, if you told us that it was a RAF-Crew captured in nord-africa, we believed you the same ...

Rémi

[Tim O.]

Cannot help on the ID but looks like a Reece clasp so sometime after 2nd quarter 1941.

[Brian Bines]

If a bomber crew would Hpt Walter Luehr (EK1 and Gold War Flight Badge ), and Uffz crew of 3/KG26 Bougie Harbour on 12-11-42 be a possibility. If a recce crew Avions magazine had a series of articles on 2(F)/123 with loss lists. I do not know if these might show a complete crew as Pows, no access to mine at present. Can't make out the pilot's rank but looks life an officer. Does the footwear indicate a crew who may have been picked up from the sea.

[Chris Goss]

Brian. Chap 2 left is definitely and officer but cannot make out any ranks or be certain as to the type of Spange

[Stephen M. Fochuk]

The two guys on the right certainly have loops for jewelry; possibly thrown away and quite possibly their flight boots were lost if they hit the silk. What I find interesting is two of the four look to have removed their embroidered Luftwaffe Eagle patch.

[Tim O.]

The epaulettes on the officer look plain with no pips, which would mean Leutnant. The absence of awards and insignia could mean captured by the Americans. From first hand accounts of captured Germans it seems the Americans were far more likely to purloin a German soldiers awards than other Allied troops. Pure speculation but maybe narrows the field. The absence of boots often means they had to use their parachutes.