Mission: Attack on Tangmere aerodrome, Sussex, England.
Date: 16th August 1940
Time: 13.00 hours.
Unit: 3 Staffel./Stukageschwader 2
Type: Junkers Ju 87B-2
Werke/Nr.5580
Coded: T6 + HL
Location: Off B.2145, Selsey Road, Near Church Norton Junction, Sussex, England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Ernst Konig. 58221/? - Captured wounded.
Gunner: Unteroffizier. Josef Schmid. 58221/? Captured wounded.
Date: 16th August 1940
Time: 13.00 hours.
Unit: 3 Staffel./Stukageschwader 2
Type: Junkers Ju 87B-2
Werke/Nr.5580
Coded: T6 + HL
Location: Off B.2145, Selsey Road, Near Church Norton Junction, Sussex, England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Ernst Konig. 58221/? - Captured wounded.
Gunner: Unteroffizier. Josef Schmid. 58221/? Captured wounded.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Aircraft in good condition, with radiator damage, causing engine failure. Engine: Ju 211 D. The two crew were discovered by Air Intelligence personnel badly wounded in a hospital near Chichester and would not give any details
Markings: H in yellow. Crest: shield with yellow eagle on white field above black cross on red field.
Copy of RAF Intelligence Report No. 980/1940 (Public Records Office).
A crowd of civilians gather to see the "Stuka" that force landed a mile from the sea near Selsey.
Two soldiers guard the almost intact dive bomber.
