Site visitor Derek Walton has supplied us with further information about Ludwig Walter, the Luftwaffe airman whose body was recovered from the sea off our coast (see Archives section).
Derek writes...
"Incidentally, I can give further information for the mortuary form of the
German airman, L. Walter. On Sunday, 14th March 1943 a Junkers Ju88. A-14 Wk.No.144378 3E+CT of 9/KG6 was shot down into the sea of Blyth by a Beaufighter. The German crew:- Fw. A Wissel, Fw. L Wendel, Uffz W Gabon all missing, Fw. L Walter - body was recovered and brought into Blyth."
Many thanks...
