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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 Graves list Rüdiger |
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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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