Date: 3rd May 1941
Time: 3.30 a.m.
Unit: 1 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 30
Type: Junkers Ju 88A-5
Werke/Nr. 8180
Code: 4D + BH
Location: Off shore at Weybourne, Norfolk.
Pilot: Feldwebel Erwin Geiger 62741 POW
Observer: Feldwebel Helmut Laser 62758 POW
Radio/Op: Feldwebel Richard Altmayer 62741 POW
Gunner : Major Walter Seeburg 62741 POW/Slightly wounded.
REASON FOR LOSS:
According to "The Blitz" Then & Now Vol.2 this aircraft was shot down by P/O Guy A. Edmison and Sgt A. G. Beale of No.151 Squadron in a Defiant.
The R.A.F. Intelligence report A.I.(k) No. 190/1941 states the following;
This aircraft skirted the Northern part of the Wash at nearly 23,000 feet and on turning Westwards over the coast near Skegness encountered intense and accurate heavy A.A. fire. Although no hits were noticed at the time, the port engine started to lose power and the compass went wrong. The bombs were jettisoned and the pilot turned Southwards intending to make for home, but when over Norfolk the starboard engine also started to give out and so a belly landing was made on the beach. The gunner was a Major who, at the age of 53, was making his first war flight. He was the possessor of the EK.II.
Feldwebel Geiger's Ju 88 at Weybourne following the belly landing.
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