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Location
Wellow Down, Isle of Wight IWM War Memorials Archive Record The memorial is not recorded by the War Memorials Archive. Description A printed, laminated sheet, mounted on a post at the site of the crash of a Luftwaffe Ju88A aircraft, which crashed on 29th May 1941, with the loss of all four crew members, as noted below. Placed by Nigel R Watson in 2011. At the time of writing [Feb 2013], the sheet is no longer in position. [Memorial has not been visited or recorded by Memorials in Isle of Wight team] |
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Memorial
click on images to enlarge Photos by Nigel R Watson. |
Inscription
+ ~ In Memoriam of our former Foe ~ Obfw. R. Manigel F/W F. Christiansen Uffz. H. Kubler Uffz. A. Wagemayer who died here seventy years ago at 23.55 hrs on 29th May 1941 when their Junkers Ju88A 7T+JH / 8240 of 3/KG606 out of Lannion, NW France, was brought down by a patrolling Bristol Beaufighter on their return from a night raid in the North of England. The resulting impact explosion and fire was of such ferocity that oil and fire-blackened stones are still to be seen here today. Please respect this location. N.R.W. - May 2011. Katnig7@btopenworld.com Further Information Oberfeldwebel Richard Manigel, born 10 Jan 1915, Seifersdorf. Feldwebel Friedel Christiansen, born 23 Jan 1917, Joldelund. Unteroffizier Hans Kübler, born 31 Oct 1916, Hersfeld. Unteroffizier Anton Wagemeyer, born 10 Dec 1914. All four are buried at the German Military Cemetery at Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire Personal information taken from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. (German War Graves commission) website at http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html Acknowledgments :
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