He 111H5 serial number 3916 crashed in the North Sea 24/6 1941

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He 111H5 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 O/P England

The He111H5 crashed in the North Sea killing the whole crew. The aircraft was a 100% loss.

Pilot Feldwebel Walter Rohdo has no known grave.

The body of Beobachter Gefreiter Paul Preich is believed to have been washed ashore on the island of Mandø. He was placed in a coffin and brought to Ribe by members of a Wehrmacht kompagnie along with 4 deceased members of the Royal Air Force who had also been washed ashore on the island.
He was laid to rest in Fovrfeld cemetery in Esbjerg on 5/9 1941.

Bordfunker Gefreiter Friederich Streich was laid to rest in Fovrfeld cemetery in Esbjerg on 10/9 1941 while Bordmechaniker Feldwebel Heinz Hoppe had been laid to rest in the same cemetery on 1/9 1941.

The transport to Ribe on 2/9 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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