Date: 20th January 1943
Unit: 2 Staffel/Jagdgruppe Sud
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4
Werke/Nr. 8523
Code: + 22 (Red)
Location: SE of Hastings, in English Channel.
Pilot: Leutnant Eberhard Dau 68415/49 Missing? (Born 06.03.1921 in Hamburg.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft is believed to have been shot down into the Channel off Hastings by Spitfires. Fate of the pilot unknown.
Eberhard Dau failed to return from mission to London (via
Hall)
Burial detail:
Not known.
