Mission: Escort bombers
Date: 30th September 1940
Time: 2.05 p.m.
Unit: 3/Jagdgeschwader 53
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4
Werke/Nr. 1325
Coded: 13 + (Yellow with black outline)
Location: Langley, near Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Pilot: Feldwebel Walter Scholz Captured unhurt became POW
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft forced landed, fuel exhausted at Langley following bomber escort sortie and combat with RAF fighters.
Up to this point the pilot Fw Walter Scholz had three aerial victories.
A.I 1(g) Report No. 3/67 states:
Crashed on 30.09.40 at Langney, near Eastbourne. Map ref: R.0820. Markings 13 + (figures in yellow). Orange nose, rudder and fin. Engine DB601A, No.63509, made by Daimler Benz at Genshagen, Toltow.
Armament: 2 x 20mm cannons and 2 MG 17. Armour: normal cross bulkhead, and panel behind pilots head.
Following fighter action, aircraft forced landed. A few .303 strikes in cooling system and engine. Pilot prisoner.
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