Airwar over Denmark

Airwar over Denmark

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Do 18 crashed in the North Sea 23/7 1940.


The aircraft belonged to 1. Kü. Fl. Gr. 406 and was coded ?.
T/o Believed Stavanger. Op: Feindflug.


The Do 18 crashed into the North Sea in Pl.Q. 2697 which is northeast of the Orkney Islands after air combat killing the crew of four.
 
On 29/8 1940 the dead body of Navigator Leutnant z. See Dieter Neumerkel was found washed ashore in Beach area 14 of Holmsland Klit near Nørre Hauervig by Receiver of Wrecks Christian Christensen.
The body was handed over to the Wehrmacht and was brought to Germany where it was laid to rest in the cemetery of Hirschberg.



Sources: RL 2 III/1174, WASt, KH.
 

 

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