Mission: Defence of the Reich.
Date: 22nd December 1943
Time: 15.15 hours.
Unit: 8 Staffel./Zerstoerergeschwader 26
Type: Messerchmitt Bf 110G-2
Werke/Nr.120019
Coded: 8 + (Black)
Location: 2km NW of Witmarsum, Friesland, Netherlands.
Pilot: Feldwebel. Cyprian Gropper. Born 27.09.1917. – Killed.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Heinrich Lange – Injured.
Date: 22nd December 1943
Time: 15.15 hours.
Unit: 8 Staffel./Zerstoerergeschwader 26
Type: Messerchmitt Bf 110G-2
Werke/Nr.120019
Coded: 8 + (Black)
Location: 2km NW of Witmarsum, Friesland, Netherlands.
Pilot: Feldwebel. Cyprian Gropper. Born 27.09.1917. – Killed.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Heinrich Lange – Injured.
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft crashed following combat with fighters, no further details known.
Cyprian Gropper pictured during training (Matthe).
Survivor, Youthful Uffz. Heinrich Lange (Matthe).
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Cyprian Gropper pictured in flight gear (Matthe). The death notice of Cyprian (Matthe).
Burial details: German Military cemetery, Ysselsteyn, Netherlands.
Block AR. Row 2. Grave 45.
Researched by Melvin Brownless with thanks to Mike Matthe and Matti Salonen (March) 2013.
