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Fries, Karl (Jagdgeschwader 6)

Date of birth:
May 9th, 1921
Date of death:
January 1st, 1945 (Rips, Netherlands)
Buried on:
German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn
Plot: TD. Row: 4. Grave: 45.
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Unteroffizier, 4.Staffel, Jagdgeschwader 6, KIA with Fw 190A-8 Werknummer 737.405 coded "Blue 13" shot down by Flt. Lt. R.J "Dick" Audet of RCAF 412th Squadron and crashed at Vinkenpeel, northwest of Venray, near Nijmegen.
Initially buried in a mass grave at De Rips Holland, he was re-buried August 1959 in a single grave at Ysselsteyn

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