The Evening Star newspaper of March 17 2006 reports the presentation of a dress made from a parachute to the Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum by a Mrs Myrtle Ratliff.
A Mosquito from Castle Camps shot down the Ju 88 on 29.01.1944 at Needham Market where one crew member, Wolfgang Bruning, landed safely. The parachute and crew member being looked after by the Stevens family. One other crew member safely bailed out, however the pilot was killed and a fourth member never found.
Does anyone know anything about this engagement and what happened to the respective crews?
Greetings!
Rogier
By: Geoff K - 21st March 2006 at 14:55
From the German War Graves Website:-
Nachname: Goergen
Vorname: Heinz
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum: 09.07.1921
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 29.01.1944
Todesort:
Heinz Goergen ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Cannock Chase (Großbritannien) .
Endgrablage: Block 1 Reihe 2 Grab 43
Geoff
By: Geoff K - 21st March 2006 at 14:48
From ‘The Blitz then & now Vol 3’ (Night of 29/30th January 1944)
‘3/KG54 Junkers Ju88A-4 (300228). Shot down by Flight Sergeant L.W. Neal and Flight Sergeant E Eastwood in a Beaufighter MkVI of No 68 Squadron on their first operational flight. Crashed half a mile south-west of Shrubland Hall, Codenham, Suffolk, 8.40 pm. Uffz H Goergen killed, Uffz J Sprenger injured, Uffz A Zehetner and Uffz W Bruning baled out and taken prisoner. Aircraft B3+AL destroyed.
Site investigated by Peter Stanley 1978 and 1981. Some makers labels and exploded amunition among the fragments discovered.’
Geoff
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March 20, 2006 at 10:49 pm