Date: 3rd January 1944
Time: Between 21.35 and 00.40 hours
Unit: 16 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 2
Type: Messerschmitt Me 410A-1
Werke/Nr. 420005
Code: U5 + AJ
Location: In the sea off Dover (Straights of Dover)
Pilot: Feldwebel Friedrich Hess 58214/272 Missing (Born 25.01.1921 in Bechtheim.)
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier Max von Poblotzki 57359/525 Missing (Born 07.10.1921 in Penzing.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by F/O R. D. Bergemann (NZ) and F/O K. R. Bishop in a Mosquito HK461 of No. 488 Sqdn.
The Messerschmitt Me 410 exploded in the air and crashed into the Straights of Dover.
Feldwebel Friedrich Hess missing in action. Friedrich's pilot badge donated by his sister
Below: Translation of letters of condolence from 16./KG2 Staffelkapitaen Oblt Hermann Walther to the father of Friedrich, January 1944
