Reverse of photo translation?

[Melvin Brownless]

Hi Guys, Can any of you decipher this one????

Kind regards

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com

[nikkel]

Hi Melvin i boucht this picture on ebay

Regards Mike

[digedag1]

Ro, 5.2.42
+ am 23. Juni 1944
d. Flugzeugunfall
in Hardberg b/Graz
mit Gen. Oberst Dietl.

Ro, 5.2. 42
+ on the 23rd of June 1944
the flying accident
in Hardberg near Graz
with Gen. Oberst Dietl

annotation: Hardberg = right written: Hartberg

digedag1

[JohnnyB]

That´s ok, digedag1. Please read here :

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...r/DietlE-R.htm

He was on the way to a Führer-Meeting at Obersalzberg as his plane crashed at this place.

Regards - Rainer

[Melvin Brownless]

That is very interesting information guys, does anyone have the aircraft and full crew details regarding this loss?

Thanks again & kind regards to all,

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com

[JohnnyB]

Hi Melvin

it was the Ju52/3m-11, Werk.Nr. 7596

Regards - Rainer

@edit
Very interesting - I just see that General Dietl has signed at 30.1.1941 my fathers Narvik Shield Certificate as "General der Gebirgstruppen" and "Befehlshaber der Gruppe Narvik"

[JohnnyB]

I've also found this :

"In the morning of 23.06.1944 he started from Graz to Aspern near Vienna. When approaching the 1,800 meter high mountain Hochwedel Dietls Ju52 came into a gust from valley, fell and crashed on the Hartberg in Steiermark."

"With him died the Knight's Cross Infantry General (Ritterkreuzträger General der Infantrie) Thomas Emil von Wickede and the General of Mountain Troops (General der Gebirgstruppe) Karl Eglseer, commanding general of the XVIII. Mountain Corps. (kommandierender General des XVIII. Gebirgs-Korps)".

"On 2.July 1944 he (Dietl) was buried at the Northern Cemetery in Munich in a solemn act of state"


Rainer