Mission: ? (Please advise if you have any further information)

Date: 11th May 1943

Unit: 3 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 2

Type: Dornier Do 217E-4

Werke/Nr. 1163

Code: U5 + FL

Location: In sea off the Ness Point.

Pilot: Leutnant Eberhard Pleiss 57358/365 Killed (Born 17.04.1923 in Schwaebisch Hall.)

Observer: Unteroffizier Wilhelm Stoecker 57359/227 Killed (Born 04.02.1921 in Altenrath.)

Radio/Op: Obergefreiter Carl Busch 57358/317 Missing (Born 27.11.1921 in Leck.)

Gunner : Oberfeldwebel Hermann Heuyng 69647/75 Missing (Born 13.10.1916 in Koeln.)


REASON FOR LOSS:

The pilot of this aircraft was dazzled by searchlights, during evasive action the aircraft crashed into the sea off the Ness Point.

Artists impression of the loss of Lt Pleiss's Dornier 217 (via Collis)

     
Leutnant Eberhard Pleiss (via Collis). Suspected grave of Lt Pleiss



Obergefeiter Carl Busch missing in action (via Hall)


Death notice for Unteroffizier Willy Stoecker killed in action

Burial details:
In Grave No.522, Lowestoft Cemetery lies an unknown German soldier, it is believed to be the German airman washed ashore at Gunton on the 30.05.43, Eberhard Pleiss could be this missing airman. Uffz Stoecker also lies in the same cemetery.