Date: 21st December 1939
Unit: 3 Staffel./Fernaufklaerungsgruppe 121
Type: Heinkel He 111H-2
Werke/Nr.(Not recorded)
Coded: (not known)
Location: Crashed near Spöck, NE of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Kurt Keller – Killed.
Observer: Leutnant. Wintermeyer – Injured/Safe?
Flt/Engineer: Obergefreiter. Ewald Otto – Killed.
Flt/Eng; Ewald Otto in the cockpit of Heinkel He 111 (Schmitz)
REASON FOR LOSS:
Presumed went into a tailspin due to stall during reconnaissance flight, Aircraft 100% write-off.
Aftermath, burnt out remains of Kurt Keller’s He 111 in woodland near Spöck (Schmitz)
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Pilot Kurt Keller pointing to a map of England (Schmitz)cccccccccccccccccc ccccccccccc Portrait of Ewald Otto (Schmitz)ccccccccccc
Burial detail: Believed taken back to their home towns for burial.
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless, with special thanks to Chuck Schmitz (U.S.A.) and Matti Salonen. (New July 2014).
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