Mission: English Channel and the Isle of Wight.

Date: 22nd June 1943

Unit: 4 Staffel/Fernaufklaerungsgruppe 123

Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-4/R2

Werke/Nr. 14907

Code: ?

Location: Near Caen, (Bayeux) France.

Pilot: Leutnant Joachim Klaven 58539/7 Wounded (Born 10.04.1923 in Danzig.)

REASON FOR LOSS:

Aircraft was on fire, pilot baled-out but sustained injuries; broken nose and lower leg and was admitted to the Luftwaffe hospital at Bayeux.
NOTE: Leutnant Klaven took his own life during October 1945 in Soviet occupied Danzig.

Leutnant Joachim Klaven
Leutnant Joachim Klaven committed suicide 1945
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