Mission: Attack on London, England.
Date: 15th September 1940
Time: 14.50 hours.
Unit: Stab./Kampfgeschwader 53
Type: Heinkel He 111H-2
Werke/Nr.3140
Coded: A1 + DA
Location: Near Tripcock Pier, in the grounds of Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, England.
Feldwebel. Arnold Benz. 69036/36 – Killed. CC 1/468.
Feldwebel. Alois Schweiger. 69036/114 – Killed. CC 1/467.
Unteroffizier. Heinrich Meyer. 53502/470 – Killed. CC 1/470.
Unteroffizier. Georg Geiger. 69036/124 – Killed. CC 1/469.
Feldwebel. Michael Cionber. - Seriously wounded.
Date: 15th September 1940
Time: 14.50 hours.
Unit: Stab./Kampfgeschwader 53
Type: Heinkel He 111H-2
Werke/Nr.3140
Coded: A1 + DA
Location: Near Tripcock Pier, in the grounds of Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, England.
Feldwebel. Arnold Benz. 69036/36 – Killed. CC 1/468.
Feldwebel. Alois Schweiger. 69036/114 – Killed. CC 1/467.
Unteroffizier. Heinrich Meyer. 53502/470 – Killed. CC 1/470.
Unteroffizier. Georg Geiger. 69036/124 – Killed. CC 1/469.
Feldwebel. Michael Cionber. - Seriously wounded.
REASON FOR LOSS:
The aircraft released twelve bombs, which dropped near Becton Gas Works; shortly after the aircraft was attacked by a Spitfire and two of the crew baled out, the parachute of one failing to open. Aircraft came down under control but hit a coal dump, broke up and caught fire.
RAF Air Intelligence Report No.530/1940 (NA).
Family death card for Georg Geiger. (ARS Archive).
Those who fell rest at the Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England. (Brownless).
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless with thanks to the National Archive (London), Nigel Parker.
