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Ju 88C-6 serial number 360143 crashed near Fliegerhorst Grove 16/6 1943. In the morning personnel from Fliegerhorst Grove arrived and retrieved the crew from the wreckage. Pilot Unteroffizier Franz Henneke, Wop Unteroffizier Günther Thiele and Engineer Gefreiter Josef Deppish had all died and was placed underneath a parachute about 20 metres from the wreck. The Luftwaffe personnel worked all day to remove the wreckage and not until late afternoon was the bodies removed. A German army chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony when the flyers were laid to rest in Lemvig cemetery on 19/6 1943.
Wop Unteroffizier Günther Thiele
Sources: LBUK, WASt, RL 2 III/1190, BL, KLe. |
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