Date: 24th August 1943
Time: 02.40 hours
Unit: 16 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 2
Type: Messerschmitt Me 410A-1
Werke/Nr. 0287
Code: U5 + EG
Location: Crashed in the North Sea.
Pilot: Feldwebel Werner Benner 58214/189 Missing (Born 10.12.1916 in Bochum.)
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Hermann Reimers 58214/195 Missing (Born 04.01.1921 in Boecken/Rendsburg.)
REASON FOR LOSS :
This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by Capt Johan Rad and Capt Lovested (Norwegian) in a Mosquito Mk XII of No. 85 Squadron.
Below: Report of the combat in the words of former Capt Rad.
Feldwebel Werner Benner missing in action and right:
Unteroffizier Hermann Reimers missing in action
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