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MikeH


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Hi,

sorry, cannot help with the writing but the following maybe of some use:-

DATE: 02-Aug-1943 / 03-Aug-1943
UNIT: 115 Squadron
AIRCRAFT: Lancaster II
RAF BASE: East Wretham
TAKE-OFF AT: 23:50
SERIAL: DS673 
CODES: KO: V
TARGET: Hamburg

 

Sgt Robert William Bennett (pilot) (1338150) killed

Sgt George Austin Hodges (flight engineer) (1581728) killed

Sgt Leslie Ernest Fuller (navigator) (1333900) killed

Sgt Herbert Alfred Sparrow (bomb aimer) (1318964) killed

Sgt Dudley Herbert Read (wireless operator) (1389067) killed

F/Sgt Dudley William Bellamy (mid-upper gunner) (903979) killed

F/Sgt Kenneth Eckert Schlegel (RCAF) (rear-gunner)  (R/152251) killed

 

DETAILS: Believed shot down by night fighter & crashed into the sea off
the port of Wilhelmshaven.  Four were buried in Sage War Cemetery three in Becklingen War Cemetery.

 

Regards,

Mike



-- Edited by MikeH on Tuesday 25th of September 2012 02:34:53 PM



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-- Edited by MikeH on Tuesday 25th of September 2012 03:05:33 PM

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I have a flight book from a great uncle who was lost over seas, and while looking at his log book i noticed that in an almost invisible wrighting it says "DEAD". We have never noticed it at all till recently. The word appears after the last input into the log in capital letters and as i said before is practically invisible...Weird just wondering if anyone knows if that was common practice and why or is it something weird that has happened??????

 

 

 

Thanks



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P.s. His name was "Kenneth Eckert Schlegel"

 

His service number is R152251



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Mike,

 

where did you find all this info out and can you tell me where i might be able find more info about him????

 

 

Scott Schlegel



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MikeH


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Hi Scott,

Check out RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Vol 4 : 1943  by W.R Chorley

 

Also links below:-

http://88.208.193.119/ROH/Roll%20of%20Honour.htm

http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=7372

 

Mike



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MikeH


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Hi Scott,

there is a probable luftwaffe claim for Lancaster DS673,  in the book Nachtjagd War Diaries Vol 1, by Theo Boiten.

 

2-3 August 1943

Ofw. Erich Heitmann:2        2./NJG3   Lancaster      Sea 5 km. S Spiekeroog:      100 m   01.55           prob. 115 Lancaster DS673

 

hope this helps,

Mike



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All great info Mike,

 

Thank you so much 

 

not easy trying to find all this out

 

I have just started a file on trying to find out as much info as possible on Kenneth.

 

Mybe some help on the  115 Squadron????


 



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