Date: 1940 May10/10			A/C Type: Ju-88 A-1		SN: 6018		Code: 5J + AT		A/C Nickname:
File: 372		Airfrce: Luftwaffe		Sqn/Unit: 9./KG 4			Mission/Raid: Bombing Amsterdam Schiphol airfield
1	P	Lt. Reinhard Graf                   KIA					9
2	Observer	Ofeldw. Rudolf Mölle             KIA					10
3	Bordfunker	Gefr. Gerhardt Neuber          KIA					11
4	F/engineer	Uffz. Otto Pälchen                KIA					12
5							13
6							14
7							15
8							16
Crashed south of Schiphol airfield. Suspected in water, possibly Kagerplas. Claim of Dutch Fokker D21 points into this direction. Crew was missing for some time. (Re-) buried 20 July 1940 in Amsterdam, no entry data in our files. However reburied in Ysselsteyn in the 'Amsterdam-plot' CW, graves 261, 262, 287 and 288. Of crash in Lake IJsselmeer no evidence found (2 Jan. 2015).

Sources

- internet forums
- Survey 'Duitse gevallenen meidagen 1940' by Lt. Col. (ret.) E.H. Brongers
- ZZairwar Amsterdam burial files
- Lake IJsselmeer crash and recovery files ZZairwar



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