Date: 14th June 1941
Unit: 4./Nachtjagdgeschwader 2
Type: Junkers Ju 88C-2
Werke/Nr. 0785
Code: R4 + IM
Location: North Sea.
Base: Gilze - Rijen
Pilot: Unteroffizier Vitus Alt 60941/5 Killed (Born 28.01.1915 in Kissing/Augsburg.)
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Hans Suckow 60941/7 Killed (Born 09.07.1920 in Gumbinnen.)
Gunner : Unteroffizier Erwin Korn 60941/6 Killed (Born 11.10.1920 in Bigichheim.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft took off for operations over England on the 13.06.41 at 23.00 hours. On return from this mission at 02.30 a.m near the Island Schouven off the Dutch coast the crew saw a dinghy containing survivors from a ditched Heinkel He 111 of 8./KG4. Vitus Alt started to circle the dinghy and Radio operator Hans Suckow sent an SOS message back to base. Almost immediatley after the message was sent the low circling Ju 88's wing tip touched the water and in a flurry of spray the aircraft crashed into the sea to the disbelief to those in the dinghy. There were no survivors.
Unteroffizier Vitus Alt 1st from left during training (via Alt)
Unteroffizier Vitus Alt (via Alt) 
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