Date: 11th May 1944
Unit: 9 Staffel./Jagdgeschwader 302
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6
Werke/Nr. 411333
Coded: + 1 (Yellow)
Location: Edemissen near Peine, Germany.
Pilot: Unteroffizier Günter Heinsen Killed (Born 01.03.1922.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft was lost due to the pilot suffering oxygen failure. The aircraft dived into the ground at high speed and was destroyed. Tragically this crash occured ony five kilometers from the pilot's home town of Uetze. The engine of this machine was recovered by the town of Edemissen during 1995, a memorial stone erected after the recovery marks the crash site. (Information and pictures from researcher Rüdiger Kaufmann 30.08.2008).
Günter Heinsen killed in action (via Kaufmann)
Memorial stone at the crash site of Uffz Heinsen's Bf 109G (via Kaufmann)
The last resting place of Günter Heinsen (via Kaufmann)
Burial detail:
Uetze Cemetery, Germany.
