Grave of four German aircrew in Lowestoft cemetery
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Grave of four German aircrew in Lowestoft cemetery
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 26 May 2016
The Junkers Ju88A-14 was part of an attack on Great Yarmouth on 19th October 1942 at 08.45 in the morning. The aircraft, one of 35 aircraft, crashed after being harried by a mosquito from 157 Sqdn, and being fired upon by AA fire from shore and ships in Lowestoft harbour eventually hitting HT electricity cables and crashing into the concrete blocks of the stop-line, very close to the Anti-Aircraft emplacement on College Farm. The pilot was Leutnant Dr Wilhelm Blackert, the observer Unteroffizier. Meinhard Smit, the radio operator, Unteroffizier. Alfred Boehnemann and gunner Unteroffizier Helmut Mollenhauer were all killed instantly.
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