| Date:1940 Oct 02/02 | A/C Type: He-115 B | SN: 2095 | Code: 8L + DL | A/C Nickname: |  |
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| File: 435 | Airfrce: Luftwaffe | Sqn/Unit: 3./Kü.Fl.Gr. 906 | Mission/Raid: | |||||||
| 1 | P | Oblt. Hans-Rolf Günther KIA | 9 | |||||||
| 2 | Observer | crewmember 2 KIA | 10 | |||||||
| 3 | Gunner | crewmember 3 KIA | 11 | |||||||
| 4 | 12 | |||||||||
| 5 | 13 | |||||||||
| 6 | 14 | |||||||||
| 7 | 15 | |||||||||
| 8 | 16 | |||||||||
"Schellingwoude, Bruchlandung, 100% write-off". Günther was buried with 2 others. All buried next to each other in Amsterdam. |
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Photos exist of a 3./906 (Günthers) He-115 8L + DL hanging in the ropes of the recovery-crane, autumn 1940.
Heavily damaged. Nose smashed, tail broken-off. A traditional cargo vessel (tjalk) on Lake IJsselmeer is heading east, sailing towards Elburg.
Also the Amsterdam Buiten-IJ 'Strekdam' is visible.
Other images same period have as original caption "Funeral Günther'. Three coffins, location is Amsterdam, German plot used 1940.
- Research ZZairwar.
- 2012 reconstruction of the Amstrdam burial files 1940-1945
- Website Historisches Marinearchiv.de
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