Date: 15th September 1940
Time: 12.30 p.m.
Unit: 1 Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 27
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1
Werke/Nr. 6147
Coded: + 5 (Black outlined red)
Location: Isfield Place, Isfield, SW of Uckfield, Sussex. England. Also reported as Argos Cottage and Meadow at Lodge Wood, Isfield
Pilot: Unteroffizier Andreas Walburger POW
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft was engaged by Spitfires, believed No. 19 Squadron, during escort sortie for KG76 attack on London and suffered damage to radiator causing engine fire. Possibly that claimed by Sergeant D. G. S. R. Cox. Force-landed near Lodge Wood, Homestead, Isfield, Sussex.
A.I.2.(g) Report 2/140 1940.
Me 109 crashed at Isfield, near Lewes on 15/9/40. Markings + 5. All yellow nose, spinner red and white. Old markings rubbed out BZ + NG.
Aircraft contructed by Arado F.W. Werke nr. 6147 in 1938. Fitted with DB601A engine constructed by Daimler Benz, Berlin Marienfeld No.10625. Aircraft crashed following fighter action, the water cooler having been hit which caused engine to overheat. Aircraft reported to be in good condition. Standard armament of 4 MG17 machine guns and fitted with a bomb rack for 1 x 250 kg bomb. Instruments standard. Pilot taken prisoner.
Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 Wnr.6147 seen here on the back of a transporter via Hall)
Burial detail:
None captured unhurt and taken prisoner
