Mission: Attack on South East England

Date: 22/23rd August 1943

Time: 23.59 hours

Unit: 14 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 2

Type: Messerschmitt Me 410A-1

Werke/Nr. 0228

Code: U5 + EE

Location: In the sea 25 miles NE of Foreness Point, NE of Margate, Kent.

Pilot: Unteroffizier Johann Oertel 57359/278 Missing (Born 27.10.1919 in Weiden.)

Radio/Op: Feldwebel Martin Kuefner 57359/339 Missing (Born 04.07.1917 in Bindlach Krs. Bayreuth.)

REASON FOR LOSS:

This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by F/L C. Kirkland and P/O R. C. Raspin in a Mosquito of No.29 Squadron.

Johann Oertel
Unteroffizier Johann Oertel missing in action

Johann Oertel letter
Letter from Staffelfuehrer Major Meister to Johann's father 25.08.1943
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