Date: 8th March 1943
Unit: 2 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 2
Type: Dornier Do 217 E-4
Werke/Nr. 4355
Code: U5 + BK
Location: 12 km N of Octeville, France.
Pilot: Feldwebel Josef Rossmann 57359/209 Killed (Born 13.03.1917 in Knittelfeld.)
Observer: Unteroffizier Ernst Hoegner 57359/50 Killed (Born 18.12.1918 in Solnhofen/Weissenburg.)
Radio/Op: Feldwebel Erwin Oppermann 57359/260 Killed (Born 12.05.1919 in Ruesting/Oldenburg.)
Gunner Unteroffizier Rudolf Beeger 57359/222 Killed (Born 31.05.1918 in Grossenhain/Dresden.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft crashed on return from Southampton reason obscure.
Burial detail:
Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Champigny St.Andre-de-la-Eure,
France.
Rudolf Beeger Block 16 Row 3 Grave 121.
