Date: 29th April 1943
Unit: 4 Staffel/Fernaufklaerungsgruppe 123
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-4
Werke/Nr. 14764
Code: Blue 3 +
Location: In the sea, 25 N 30 miles NW of Fecamp, France.
Pilot: Feldwebel Willi Quante 69004/221 Killed (Born 14.11.1921 in Rauxel.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This pilot together with Leutnant Ernst Sensbach were flying on a course 30 miles SSE, off Selsey at zero feet when intercepted by two Typhoon IB's of No. 486 (NZ) Squadron. P/O Frank "Spud" Murphy flying as yellow 2 and F/O A. H. Smith in Yellow 1.
Both Messerschmitts were lost to the guns of these two pilot's crashing into the sea with no survivors.
Felwebel Willi Quante killed in action
Burial detail:
His body was washed ashore near Wissekerke /Insel Nord
Beveland, Netherlands. Originally buried at Friedhof
Vlissingen. Grave Nr. 246
Transferred to the Deutschen Soldatenfriedhof Ijsselsteijn.
Grave Nr. 177.
