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Unteroffizier Walter Neusüß posted missing, 29.5.1940


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Internet page of Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge with entry for
Herbert Ranscht, KG 26. The place of birth is incorrectly spelt, it should read
Uichteritz (nr. Weißenfels)

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Losses list from the book by Rudi Schmidt for I. / KG 26 from 17.10.1939 till 29.5.1939. Bottom right-hand corner the crew with Walter Neusüß is listed (in Schweden interniert)

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An extract from the original Luftwaffe loss reports can be seen on the homepage of flyvrak (Norway)

https://flyvrak.info/tverrdalen.html

and

http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/LWe/LW022-He111.html

A further reference can be found under the homepage of Forced Landings Collection, based in Sweden.

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This photo arrived today. A He 111 of KG 26 - 1H+BN - was offered as "..under camouflage netting, Winter 1939/40"
However, another source states this as Norwegian Campaign 1940. Said to be of 5./KG 26, the emblem is wrong, according
to Hauptmann Rudiger Schmidt, the emblem was always on a white background, the red shown here is wrong.
An official press photo without inscription.

The other example can be seen under:

https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/He-111/KG26/pages/Heinkel-He-111H1-5.KG26-(1H+BN)-Norwegian-Campaign-1940-01.html

 

 

 

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more illustrations under this link:

https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/He-111/KG26.html

 

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http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2018/verlustliste-kampfgeschwader-26-1945_wk2.html

All losses, 1939-45  list recently compiled in May 2018 by denkmalprojekt online using sources:
Achtung! Torpedos los! by Rudi Schmidt,
"Die Spur des Löwen", die Geschwaderchronik des KG 26 by Alexander Steenbeck, 2012*
with addition of Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Suchdienst Vermisstenbildlisten

*This book appeared in a fairly limited edition and was gone in no time. Since occasionally offered at exhorbitant prices.
The author says there will be no further edition and no further copies can be obtained. Could be some sort of marketing tactic to
manipulate the price tremendously. A book that has disappeared as soon as it was published, there are also no recensions,
illustrations, quotes  or examples to be seen anywhere, very strange. Presently, there is one example in internet available
for the price of 339,00 Euros!

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368 pages, over 1000 photos...

Steenbeck is the author of several books:
100 Jahre Blankensee
LBC Lübeck-Blankensee - von der Fliegerstation zum Regionalflughafen
Die dunklen Jahre, Der Flughafen Lübeck-Blankensee in den 1930er und 40er Jahren
 

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Document on first page. Signature is Leutnant Abenhausen

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Further information found on Leutnant, later Oberleutnant Abenhausen:

Shot down over Hornchurch on 11. September 1940, Abenhausen and all of his crew were killed, according to the information below,
however, the Luftwaffe losses report missing/p.o.w. GB

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Source:
The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II - von Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richard

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Found at a wrecksite of a He 111 near Moscow in 1941. The Werk-Nr. is 1644, licence built by Land- und See-Leichtbau G.m.b.H. in Kiel, completed in March 1941, would be worth research if any way possible. One of the crew had the Narvik shield, so could be narrowed down to K.G. 26 or K.G. 4, which were both involved in action at Narvik, April-June 1940. Photo must well originate from Russian souces.

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Seen under:  8:22/14:46

 

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Fliegerhorstkommandantur A5/XI - Lübeck-Blankensee, Personalnummer 2101, Blutgruppe AB
A larger airfield just southeast of Lübeck near the River Trave and just short of the coast, this airfield is where Stab and I. Gruppe of Kampfgeschwader 26 were stationed, and where Walter Neusüß was stationed at the beginning of the war in 1939.
Zink with some corrosion spots and staining/corrosion to the rear.

 

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Regionale Flugplätze setzen auf eigene Airlines - Hamburger Abendblatt

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Hintergrund - Lübeck und sein Flughafen - airliners.de

Blankensee today, Flughafen Lübeck, known for charter flights to European short range destinations, also London

Standortbild Grone Bildungszentrum Lübeck Schleswig-Holstein

Nearby administration blocks now used as a school for further education paid by the government.

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A stained glass lead framed window panel commemorating the aircrews who flew against England in the early 1940s.
The words are from the famous "Englandlied".  Origin unknown.

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Losses, 1939/40

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2018/verlustliste-kampfgeschwader-26-1939-1940_wk2.html

Further losses 1941-1945 are linked on above page

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He 111, possibly  1H+EL, Poland in 1939 (?)

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Growing up among crashed airplanes and other relics after the nearby mountains and sea. I was a avid wreck diver before and have dived on many ditched planes. The picture taken here is not taken by me, but I have been there. And was there in the start of recovering the nose cannon, now installed in a complete HE 111 in a museum
The Lufttorpedostaffel attacked convoy PQ 17 three times this day. The "Löwengeschwader" KG 26 lost four Heinkels:
WNr.7098 1H+GH (Lt.Konrad Hennemann)
WNr.7156 1H+MH (Lt.Georg Kaunmeyr).
WNr.4966 ditched in the Barents sea. In addition a BV 138C (WNr.0310119 7R+HH) was lost.
The crew were brought to Tromsø onboard a German patrol boat the day after the crash.
The next day another He 111 of I./KG 26 (WNr.7084) made a forced landing in the sea at Malangen. Luftwaffe lost 11 aircrafts during the attacks on convoy PQ 17
The crew of this airplane was rescued by a local freight boat and the captain was ordered to tow it ashore, the boat got "problems with the engine" and the plane sunk. One of the passangers was a 10 year old passanger, he aimed at landmarks on two different places and was able to point the location of its whereabouts to a friend of mine, this is why I was one of the first to dive on that plane

Source:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=60798.0

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Here is the Heinkel. In a museum outside Oslo Gardermoen airport
Kampfgeschwader 4 ”General Wever” 5J+CN
Initially hit in the right engine by AAA from HMS Manchester before it was shot down

 

 

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KG 26, losses for September 1939, found in a Russian archive.

https://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/pages/329127/zooms/8

https://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/pages/329128/zooms/8

 

https://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/pages/329129/zooms/8

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