Mission: ?

Date: 23rd October 1943

Type: Junkers Ju 88A-4

Werke.Nr. 550131

Code: 4D + DM

Location: The mountain range of Appenines, Italy. (Neapel)

Pilot: Unteroffizier Wilhelm Krisam Killed

Observer: Obergefreiter Alfons Feja Baled-out injured

Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Gerhard Magewski Baled-out injured

Gunner: Obergefreiter Werner Pietsch Baled-out injured

REASON FOR LOSS:

Believed shot down by allied night fighter. Radio operator Uffz Kempter was usually a member of this crew, on the 23.10.43 Kempter was unwell and Uffz Magewski took his place on the mission. Uffz Walter Kempter was shot down over England on the night of the 23/24th April 1944 in a Junkers Ju 88A-14 Wnr.144501 and survived.

Wilhelm Krisam
From L to R: Obgefr Feja, Uffz Kempter, Uffz Krisam, Obgefr Pietsch, unknown?, unknown?

Wilhelm Krisam citation
Citation awarded to the crew for destroying a ship in the bay of Salerno on the 16.09.43
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