Date: 29th August 1940
Time: 23.45 hours.
Unit: 3 Staffel./Kampfgeschwader 27
Type: Heinkel He 111H
Werke/Nr.3438
Coded: 1G + EL (E in yellow)
Location: Downton Hale, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Josef Schlosser - Wounded.
Observer: Oberleutnant. Hans Hunerbein - Bruised.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Dietrich Siebers - Injured.
Flt/Eng: Obergefreiter. Paul Walpert - Severely wounded.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Started from France on a reconnaissance mission, carrying no bombs. Flying about 19,000 ft. near Bristol, the aircraft was hit by AA fire and a short while later the crew bailed out. Aircraft hit a house, and was completely burnt out except for the tail unit.
The burnt out wreck after the fires had been put out, only the rear end remains intact.
A.I.(k). Report No.337/1940 (National Archive)
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless, August 2013.