Date: 16th March 1943
Time: 21.05 hours.
Unit: 3 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 6
Type: Junkers Ju 88
Werke/Nr. 4532
Code: 3E + EK
Location: Presumed crashed in the sea off SE coast of England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier Arno Diemer 55512/134 Missing (Born 21.01.1920 in Ebingen/Wuerttbg.
Observer: Obergefreiter Heinz Kretching 55512/137 Missing (Born 07.11.1921 in Gelsenkirchen.)
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Jochen Atzwanger 55512/135 Missing (Born 07.01.1921 in Hall/Tirol.)
Gunner : Obergefreiter Albert Schmidt 55512/136 Missing (Born 11.06.1920 in Sulzbach.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft is presumed to have crashed in the sea off the SE coast of England. Shot down at 21.05 hours by F/Lt M. J. Mansfeld DFC and F/O S. A. Janacek, both Czech of No.68 Squadron.
We are very pleased that a relative of the pilot Unteroffizier Diemer (In fact his nephew) has recently contacted the Aircrew Remembrance Society and supplied a picture of his Uncle. We hope to be able to add further details of him and this crew in a few weeks when Arno Diemer (named after his Uncle) visits his sister.
Above left: Pilot: Unteroffizier Arno Diemer, right:
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Jochen Atzwanger missing in action
Photo of Unteroffizier Arno Diemer supplied to the
A.R.Society by the family with full permission)
The crew from L to R: Diemer, Kretching, Atzwanger and
Schmidt, all missing in action
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