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View of Heinz Knoke's
old home-town before the war
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Plane view
of Hamelin today
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Date
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[Februar
22 , 1944]
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Type of claimed plane
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B-17
Flying Fortress |
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Detail 2
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"Hamelin
is directly below.
The blazing Fortress dives ever more steeply, ans soon ii is in
a vertical spin. It crashes in a pasture beside the river at the
south end of my old home-town.
...The pasture directly across the river was the one from which
as a boy I had taken off for my firstflight during that air display
so long ago."
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Date
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Februar
24 , 1944
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Type of crashed plane
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Bf
109G |
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Detail 3
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"At the
moment a second aircraft comes hurtling down out of the sky. It
crashes in a lumber-yard at the south end of Hamelin, on the premises
of the Kaminski wagons-manufacturing and repair workshops. It
was my wingman, the young Corporal [Kreuger].
This was his first mission."
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Personal comments
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in the book
"JG1 et JG11" from Prien & Rodeike a loss for 5.JG11
is registered february 24 ,1944 with a crash location "Ortsrand
von Emmern, Süddlich Hameln".
Pilote was killed : Gefreiter (Corporal) Oswald Kubisch.
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