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.
Unteroffizier Johann Oertel missing in action
Letter from Staffelfuehrer Major Meister to Johann's father
25.08.1943
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