Col Walter E Kurtz Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 On 07/05/2022 at 08:27, Reg Gibson said: My next stage of the journey is to find the missing airman who was found hanging from a tree the night of the crash a couple of hundred yards from the crash site. He was taken away. The German love of record keeping should reveal the detail but it's the German archives i'm going to have to tackle Lets hope you can track this very brave young man's final resting place down. I presume he's not in the War Graves Commission records? Good luck with German archives! I hope Volker can aid you. My german language at best are modest. You'll need a native speaker for sure. Have you also looked at the National Archives at Kew? The casualty forms submitted have a number of German archive documents taken in to Allied custody at the end of the war? Try WO 416/49 WO 416/49 is searchable by individual card in the catalogue - you can browse the descriptions for the individual cards here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C16588334 Maybe also have a look at AIR Ministry P4 Casualty forms in the AIR 81/ xxx catalogue? Apologies if you've already looked at these. The National Archives website has a Live Chat function. The people who man it are very helpful and might turn up something unexpected? Kind Regards Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy350 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 That is absolutely beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapam Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 An excellent build and an extremely good return to the hobby! Hope this now leads on to more builds! Welcome back to our favorite hobby. 👍👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dyck Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 It turns out very realistic! Very nice job after al long break! The display is very appropriate! Thx for sharing! Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Gibson Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 On 08/05/2022 at 15:16, Col Walter E Kurtz said: Lets hope you can track this very brave young man's final resting place down. I presume he's not in the War Graves Commission records? Good luck with German archives! I hope Volker can aid you. My german language at best are modest. You'll need a native speaker for sure. Have you also looked at the National Archives at Kew? The casualty forms submitted have a number of German archive documents taken in to Allied custody at the end of the war? Try WO 416/49 WO 416/49 is searchable by individual card in the catalogue - you can browse the descriptions for the individual cards here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C16588334 Maybe also have a look at AIR Ministry P4 Casualty forms in the AIR 81/ xxx catalogue? Apologies if you've already looked at these. The National Archives website has a Live Chat function. The people who man it are very helpful and might turn up something unexpected? Kind Regards Andy Andy, lots to look through. Thanks for the direction. The assumption has always been that they were all killed and one of the crew is commemorated at Runnymede. We've never assumed that the 7th man survived 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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