Date: 2nd July 1942
Unit: IV./Jagdgeschwader 5
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109F-2
Werke/Nr.8979
Coded: (not known).
Location: In Sea off Tarven Island, Norway.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Heinz Heinrich Ludwig Ortner - Killed. Born 15.09.1921.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Aircraft crashed into the sea during aerial combat near Tarven, Norway. His body was recovered on the 7th October 1942 and laid to rest at the German military cemetery Havstein/Trondheim. No further details known by us.
Fine portrait photo of Heinz Heinrich Ludwig Ortner (Matthe)
Kriegsgraeberstaette in Byaasen / Trondheim-Havstein, Norway.
Burial detail: Heinz Heinrich Ludwig Ortner lies in the Kriegsgraeberstaette in Byaasen / Trondheim-Havstein, Norway. Row 6 Grave 67.
Researched & Compiled by Melvin Brownless with thanks to Jim P & Mike Matthe, (June 2012)
