Mission: Interception of enemy aircraft.
Date: 4th November 1942
Unit: 8 Staffel./Jagdgeschwader 77
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2
Werke/Nr.10639
Coded: 6 + (Black)
Location: Gambut, Libya.
Pilot: Leutnant. Heinz Ludemann. – Returned to German lines.
REASON FOR LOSS:
German squadron records and pilot's diaries show that this 109G-2 was damaged in a dog-fight by F/Sgt W. D. Brown, a Canadian of No.112 Squadron near Gambut,Cyrenaica, the pilot Leutnant. Heinz Ludemann, who although wounded managed to land in the desert. He got back to his Squadron but the plane was captured by the advancing 8th army on the 11th November 1942 intact. Heinz Ludemann was shot down and killed by No.112 Squadron pilot Ray "Goose" Guess, R.C.A.F. J10277, on the 10th March 1943.
Date: 4th November 1942
Unit: 8 Staffel./Jagdgeschwader 77
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2
Werke/Nr.10639
Coded: 6 + (Black)
Location: Gambut, Libya.
Pilot: Leutnant. Heinz Ludemann. – Returned to German lines.
REASON FOR LOSS:
German squadron records and pilot's diaries show that this 109G-2 was damaged in a dog-fight by F/Sgt W. D. Brown, a Canadian of No.112 Squadron near Gambut,Cyrenaica, the pilot Leutnant. Heinz Ludemann, who although wounded managed to land in the desert. He got back to his Squadron but the plane was captured by the advancing 8th army on the 11th November 1942 intact. Heinz Ludemann was shot down and killed by No.112 Squadron pilot Ray "Goose" Guess, R.C.A.F. J10277, on the 10th March 1943.
Leutnant. Heinz Ludemann (Archive)
“Black” 6 pictured shortly after its capture (IWM)
Restored to fly in 1991 by Ron Snaddon and his team at R.A.F. Benson, later transferred to Duxford where it flew for the next five years.
The cockpit of Heinz Ludemann’s Bf 109G-2 (Brownless)
After a fantastic restoration “Black” 6 flies again (net)
Pictured on display with re-enactment Luftwaffe personnel at Duxford (Brownless)
Luftwaffe veterans take a close look at “Black” 6 at Duxford 1995 (Brownless)
Now grounded, Heinz Ludemann’s machine rests at the R.A.F. museum at Hendon (Brownless)
Burial detail: None.
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless and added to website in July 2014.
