whirlwind crash 30 oct '41 brittany

[brewerjerry]

Hi All,
just used a link from another board to a search engine, for brittany crashes

http://baseportal.de/cgi-bin/basepor...&cmd=do_search

It gives me a whirlwind crash at Kerdiny, 29630 Plougasnou, France, 30 october 1941.

Presumably this is Stein's a/c, P7015,
Can anyone confirm if he survived the crash,

another web site states he was jewish.
http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/roots_102.html

also a thread here claims he bailed, out but died of wounds and is buried locally, but is mentioned on the runnymede memorial..

http://www.rafcommands.com/cgi-bin/d...rum=DCForumID6


a confused
Jerry

[Andy Saunders]

Jerry

This has cropped up as a query in the long-term work I am currently doing with Norman Franks and Chris Goss on 1941. Whilst the on-line listing is interesting one always worries with these things about the reliability (or otherwise) of their sources which, invariably, are never referenced.

It will be interesting to know what sources tie the crash site to this date. If correct, then it does look to possibly be Stein's aeroplane. If so, then the question must be asked; what has become of his remains? One or two possibilities exist, I suppose. Either he is still with his wrecked aircraft, he is buried somewhere locally by the CWGC as "unknown" or, maybe, the Germans somehow discovered the Jewish roots of Stein and he was simply "disposed of". The latter seems unlikely, but perhaps it is just possible? I would have thought that Stein would have had nothing on him to indicate his Jewish faith....but you never know!

As to "unknown" RAF burials in CWGC plots it would be helpful and interesting to have a list of cemeteries etc containing unknown RAF casualties. When the CWGC published registers in book form it was quite easy to extract them. Although these burials will have all been looked at by the MREU postwar it is sometimes possible to pull up a link 'twixt unknowns and local incidents.

[brewerjerry]

Hi Andy,
Thanks for the reply and comments, If you think I can help in anyway with your long-term work, feel free to pm me.
Cheers
Jerry

[brewerjerry]

Hi
Just a bump, to see if there is any new info.
cheers
Jerry

[brewerjerry]

Hi
Bump time
cheers
jerry