Date of birth:

May 18th, 1911 (Mülheim an der Ruhr/Rhineprovince, Germany)

Date of death:

May 9th, 1942 (Poringland/Norfolk, Great Britain)

Buried on:

Earlham Road Cemetery
Plot: 54. Grave: 234.

Service number:

Flg. H. Kp. D.Dorf. -710- 53576 -1449-

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Career:
?: Fliegerhorst Kompanie Düsseldorf;
?: Jagdgeschwader 28;
?: Kampfgeschwader 252, Cottbus;
?: 1.Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 2.

On May 8th, 1942 Oberleutnant Werner Böllert took off from Soesterberg airfield in the Netherlands with Dornier Do 217E-4 (Werk Nr. 5375), U5+EH, from 1. Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 2, with on board Oberfeldwebel Rudolf Bucksch, Unteroffizier Matthias Speuser and Unteroffizier Albert Otterbach, for a mission over England. at around 01.00 hrs they reached British airspace and shortly after that his the cable of a barrage balloon over Lakenham, Norwich. Heavily damaged the started loosing altitude and crashed at 01.20 hrs in a field near West Green Farm in West Poringland. All four crew members were dead on impact..

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