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Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

Can anyone confirm the last 3 operational losses again the UK were:

25-26 April 1942: 10./KG 2, south of Worthing to 219 Sqn
26/27 April 1942: 10./KG 2 unknown location & cause
3/4 May 42: 12./KG 2 south of Portland to 604 Sqn
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

4 May 42 was Do 17 Z-2 3306 U5+CW 100% unbekannt, page in your mailbox soon.
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

25th April 1942
Do17Z - Wn 2507
U5+GW
12./KG-2

FF - Uffz Siegfried Kuglat
BO - Gefr Karl Küster
BF - Uffz Karl Graf
BM - Uffz Hans Oskar Jansen

Lost at sea 40 miles south of Worthing at 2345.

The bodies of the last two named airmen were recovered from the sea three and a half miles SW of Shoreham on 2nd June 1942. The bodies of the pilot and observer were never recovered.
Unit assumed from an ausweis and by a dental certificate issued at Achmer and headed 12.Staffel.

Source: Luftwaffe Crash Archive Vol 9 Page 1066
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

26th April 1942
Do17Z-2 - Wn 4236
U5+BW
12./KG-2

Failed to return from a flight over the Channel off Le Havre.

FF - Lt Helmut Schobbert
BO - Gefr Kurt Motz
BF - Fw Heinrich Nadler
BM - Gefr Johann Plischeck

All lost without trace.

Source - as previous post but page 1067.
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

3rd May 1942
Do17Z-2 - Wn 3306
U5+CW
12./KG-2

Lost at sea off Portland, Dorset

FF - Ofw Albert Heyer
BO - Stabsfw Franz Warwas
BF - Fw Helmut Fahle
BM - Ofw Heinrich Pillmann

Body of Franz Warwas was washed ashore at Chesil Beach on 5th Sept 1942 and was estimated to have been in the water for about 3 months. All other bodies lost without trace.

Source - as before but page 1071.
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

Thanks both. I have all the usual sources but just need to know if there were more afterwards. IV./KG 3 was suggested but they were flying Ju 88s
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

Hello

I have this names for the loss
Kukla Siegfried Uffz. 09.06.1921 KIA
Küsters Karl Gefr. xx MIA

Kukla lies in Marigny

Source: Balke, der Luftkrieg in Europa
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Re: Last Do 17 Losses Against Mainland UK

There are a number of errors in LCA such as this as the source is either the K Report or the Quartermaster Generals Returns which themselves had a number of misspellings
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