Mission: Test Flight?
Date: 26th May 1942
Unit: 11 Staffel./Kampfgeschwader 2
Type: Dornier Do 17Z
Werke/Nr.3275
Coded: U5 + CV
Location: Tecklenburg, Germany.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Karl Röhmer – Killed.
Obs: Feldwebel. Paul Köhler – Injured.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Ewald Pape – Injured.
Flt/Eng: Gefreiter. Hans-Georg Bohl – Injured.
Date: 26th May 1942
Unit: 11 Staffel./Kampfgeschwader 2
Type: Dornier Do 17Z
Werke/Nr.3275
Coded: U5 + CV
Location: Tecklenburg, Germany.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Karl Röhmer – Killed.
Obs: Feldwebel. Paul Köhler – Injured.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Ewald Pape – Injured.
Flt/Eng: Gefreiter. Hans-Georg Bohl – Injured.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Aircraft crashed following engine failure, the pilot sadly being the only fatality.
Karl Röhmer pictured in a Messerschmitt Bf 108 “Taifun) during pilot training, (Jeckel).
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Karl Röhmer pictured during training, (Jeckel).
Uffz. Karl Röhmer (centre) with fellow pilots of KG2 names not known, (Jeckel).
Burial detail: Not known.
Compiled by Melvin Brownless, with special thanks to Horst Jeckel and family Röhmer, November 2013.