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Ar 196A-2 0050 crashed in the sea off Ristinge harbour 17/4
1940.
The aircraft belonged to 5./ Bordfliegergruppe 196 and was coded 6W + GN
T/o Aalborg See Op: Search for U boats in the sea of Kattegat.
When attempting a landing on the sea off Ristinge harbour on the island of
Langeland at 06:10 hours the Arado overturned and the crew drowned. By help of a
winch on a ship the aircraft was lifted free of the water and the two drowned
crew members was freed and brought ashore.
The crew were Navigator Leutnant zur See Hans W. Kappen and Pilot Unteroffizier
Friedrich Stracke.
The local police informed the Wehrmacht about the accident and on the same
evening a ship arrived from Kiel to retrieve the Arado and to bring the flyers
back to Germany.
Leutnant Kappen rest in Flensburg-Am Friedenshügel cemetery while it is not
known where Unteroffizier Stracke rest.
Sources: Helme, Constable C. M. Madsen, VDK, KTB 5/196 via Finn Buch.
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