Date: 6th November 1943
Unit: 3 Staffel/Schnellkampfgeschwader 10
Type: Focke Wulf Fw 190A-5/U8
Werke/Nr. 5823
Code: 9 + (Yellow )
Location: In the sea 3 miles off the Sussex coast, England
Pilot: Feldwebel Friedrich Pichler 51922/193 Missing (Born 12.02.1919 in Velden am Woerthsee/Tirol.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from Rosiers with one other aircraft (Fw 190A-5/U8 Wnr. 0077 Fw Wilhelm Haas) on sortie to London at 8.01 p.m, both aircraft & pilots failed to return! One fell to the guns of a Mosquito from No. 85 Squadron which crashed into the sea 3 miles off Hastings, Sussex.
Before joining 3./SKG10 Friedrich flew Stuka's with Stukageschwader 77.
Feldwebel Friedrich Pichler pictured here as an
Unteroffizier
Copies of the last page of his Flugbuch detailing his
flight to London
The last entry in Friedrichís flying log book, 392nd flight
a mission he was destined not to return!
Burial detail:
None.
