Date: 15th August 1940
Time: 17.30 hours.
Unit: 10 Staffel./Lehrgeschwader 1
Type: Junkers Ju 87B
Werke/Nr.(Not known)
Coded: L1 + EV
Location: Shorncliffe Crescent, Folkestone, Kent, England.
Pilot.Unteroffizier. Hermann Weber – Killed.
Gunner. Unteroffizier. Franz Heinrich Kraus – killed.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Shot down by AA fire and crashed into houses at considerable force, caught fire and burnt out. A 250 kg and a 50 kg bomb found amongst wreckage.
Markings: an E in white appeared on top of and below the wing near the wing cross. A plate recovered from the wreckage bears the name Junkers at Dessau with series no. 38706. 23/6. Drawing no, 87.314 and the number FM 038.
Junkers Ju 87B Profile.
R.A.F. A.I.(k) Report No.263/1940
The wreck of Uffz. Weber’s Ju 87 lies wrecked in a garden at Shorncliffe Crescent, Folkestone.
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Burial detail:
Both crew now rest in the Folkestone New cemetery.
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless with thanks to Nigel Parker and Clive Ellis, December 2013.
