Identity and fate of HS123 pilot group?

[rickback4444]

Hi,

I have just won a photo lot off Ebay showing 4 pilots and on the reverse possibly naming them.

They came with other photos showing a reconnaissance squadron flying HS123's in the west during 1940 and then on the Eastern Front.

I wondered if anyone could translate the script on the back to provide their names and find a corresponding unit where they might have flown. It would be great to discover their unit and eventual fates if possible.

Please see link below.

Many thanks

Rick



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Photo-WW-...p2047675.l2557

[VtwinVince]

Nice photo. The names look like Wolf ????, Willy Knoll, Willy Lingemann and Hans Boehm.

[Tim O.]

Originally Posted by rickback4444

Hi,

I have just won a photo lot off Ebay showing 4 pilots and on the reverse possibly naming them.

They came with other photos showing a reconnaissance squadron flying HS123's in the west during 1940 and then on the Eastern Front.

I wondered if anyone could translate the script on the back to provide their names and find a corresponding unit where they might have flown. It would be great to discover their unit and eventual fates if possible.

Please see link below.

Many thanks

Rick



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Photo-WW-...p2047675.l2557

If they were flying the Hs 123 they were ground-attack pilots and not reconnaissance pilots (that would have been Hs 126).

[Larry deZeng]

And their unit would be...................

II.(Schlacht)/LG 2

L.deZ.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by VtwinVince

Nice photo. The names look like Wolf ????, Willy Knoll, Willy Lingemann and Hans Boehm.

The same Willi Knoll (Staffelkapitän of 1./NAG 1) who was killed in an Me 262 crash SW of Landsberg on 21 February 1945?

(On the other hand, it is quite a common name).