Details death Fhjfw. Edwin Brockhaus and crew 6./NJG101, 14.9.1944

[Theo Boiten]

Dear all,

Who can supply me with additional details on the death of Fhjfw. Edwin Brockhaus and his crew of 6./NJG101 on 14 September 1944. His crew were Ogefr. Peter Rieck and Uffz. Michael Peinhaupt. They were reportedly shot down by a 'friendly' fighter and killed at Matrafurck. I cannot find a place called Matrafurck however (should be somewhere in the Matra mountain range NE of Budapest I think), and I cannot find the burial locations of these three airmen in the online database Volksbund Gräbersuche.

Grateful for any details, Theo

[Matti Salonen]

I have the location Mátrafüred.
Also from the NVM I have written into my database that the crew was only wounded, not killed. As the pilot I have Brochhaus, not Brockhaus, but cannot say. which one is correct.

Matti

[HGabor]

Just to clarify, this is NOT the Stab.II/NJG.101 Do 217N-2, which collided with a 10 GvAP DD IL-4 (S/N: 14019) on September 17/18, 1944 and crashed in the Mátra forest at MátraBALLA-NE at 21:00, right? Mixed, small debris of IL-4 and Do 217 still cover the forest...

Gabor

[Theo Boiten]

Thanks a lot Matti for clearing this one up! And Gabor -you're right, the 17/18.9.44 incident concerned a different loss, I have the following claim, Beck and crew were all KIA:

Oblt. Hans-Joachim Beck: 5 Stab II./NJG101 DB-3 ca. 130 km E. Budapest (FC) 22.26 10 GvAP DD Il-4 serial nr. 14019

Cheers, Theo

[HGabor]

IL-4, S/N: 14019 was underlined white '69' on rudder.

Crew:

гв.ст.л-т Баринов Александр Иванович pilot (KIA)
гв.л-т Кобелев Николай Григорьевич navigator (KIA)
гв.с-а Малахов Илья Митрофанович radioman-gunner (KIA)
с-т Некрасов Павел Дмитриевич gunner (KIA)

2 went down with the ship and the Do 217, one parachute failed to open, one survivor was killed in gunfight with searching troops in the forest near Sirok.
Gabor

[HGabor]

Yep, Matrafurck was probably Mátrafüred.

Other, correct location names for eg. Lipfert:

Soborgarol = Sárbogárd (Lipfert's 184.) ('d' in many cases was misspelled as 'ol')
Pakozol = Pákozd (Lipfert's 186.)
Stuhlweissenburg (in German) = city of Székesfehérvár (Lipfert's many, like: 165, 173, 174, etc.)
Felstgalla = Felsőgalla (Lipfert's 193.)
Neutra = Nyitra (Lipfert's 195, 196, 197.)
Diozeg = Diószeg (Lipfert's 198.)
...etc.

Gabor