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He 111H-5 serial number 3916 crashed in the North Sea 24/6
1941.
The aircraft belonged to III./ KG 4 and was coded 5J+DT
T/o Leeuwarden. Op: Attack on England.
The aircraft crashed into the North Sea with the loss of the whole crew.
Pilot Feldwebel Walter Rohdo has no known grave while the rest of the crew all
were found washed ashore on the Danish west coast and were laid to rest in
Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg.
Engineer Feldwebel Heinz Hoppe was laid to rest on 1/9, Navigator Gefreiter Paul
Preich on 5/9 and Wop Gefreiter Friedrich Streich on 10/9 1941.
It should be noted that RL 2 III/754 gives the loss date as 24/6 1941 while
it reads 25/6 1941 on the graves.
Sources: RL 2 III/754, BE, VDK.
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