Date: 15th August 1940
Time: 13.30 hours.
Unit: 7 staffel./Kampfgeschwader 30
Type: Junkers Ju 88C
Werke Nr. (not known)
Code: 4D + DR
Location: Near Hornby, Yorkshire, England.
Pilot: Oberleutnant. Werner Bachmann. – Captured POW.
Observer: Unteroffizier. Werner Evers. – Captured POW.
Radio/Op: Feldwebel. Georg Henneske. – Killed.
Flieger. Robert Wakther. – Captured POW.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from Aalborg to attack aerodromes in Yorkshire (Driffield), with four 250 kg bombs; did not reach objective. Forced landed near Hornby with Georg Henneske the radio operator being the only fatality. Possibly that claimed by Sgt James Hopewell of No. 616 Squadron. Enemy aircraft crash landed alongside the Bridlington waterworks reservoir, Scarborough Road.
Possibly airmen from RAF Driffield expecting the Ju 88 that was trying to bomb them (Jolie)
Burial detail: Georg Henneske now rests in the Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Cannock Chase, staffs, England. Block 3 Grave 369
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless, with special thanks to Jan Jolie (Netherlands) for his help in constructing this page of remembrance. March 2015
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