Date: 2nd December 1941
Unit: 1 Staffel/Fernaufklaerungsgruppe 22
Type: Junkers Ju 88D-1
Werke/Nr. 430381
Code: 4N + FH
Location: In sea, south of Sumburgh, Shetland Islands.
Pilot: Unteroffizier Werner Kurtze 60004/125 Missing (Born 29.11.1920 in Weissenfels.)
Observer: Hauptmann Friedrich Bock 69006/105 Missing (Born 18.04.1910 in Luthe near Wunstorf.)
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Fritz Sundergeld 60004/100 Missing (Born 22.05.1922 in Barntrupp/Lippe.)
Gunner : Obergefreiter Heinrich Kock 60004/153 Missing (Born 30.03.1915 in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg).
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft is believed to have been shot down by two Spitfires of No.453 RAAF Squadron.
The victors being F/Lt E. A. R. Esau flying AD557 (FU-A) and F/O Mc Auliffe piloting BL437 (FU-K). Their base being Skeabrae, Orkney Islands.
Friedrich Bock and crew with a Junkers Ju 88
Friedrich Bock missing in action. Frau Ingeborg Bock and child
