Mission: Reconnaissance flight.
Date: 21st December 1939
Unit: 3 Staffel./Fernaufklaerungsgruppe 121
Type: Heinkel He 111H-2
Werke/Nr.(Not recorded)
Coded: (not known)
Location: Crashed near Spöck, NE of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Kurt Keller – Killed.
Observer: Leutnant. Wintermeyer – Injured/Safe?
Flt/Engineer: Obergefreiter. Ewald Otto – Killed.
Main image - Flt/Eng; Ewald Otto in the cockpit of Heinkel He 111 (Schmitz)
REASON FOR LOSS:
Presumed went into a tailspin due to stall during reconnaissance flight, Aircraft 100% write-off.
Burial detail:
Believed taken back to their home towns for burial.
Researched and compiled by former member M.Brownless, with special thanks to Chuck Schmitz (U.S.A.) and Matti Salonen. (New July 2014).
Page reconstructed by Alexander D King February 2025.
21.12.1939 3./(F)121 Heinkel He 111H-2 Wnr.(not recorded) Uffz. Keller Location: Near Spöck, Germany. Aftermath, burnt out remains of Kurt Keller’s He 111 in woodland near Spöck (Schmitz)
21.12.1939 3./(F)121 Heinkel He 111H-2 Wnr.(not recorded) Uffz. Keller Location: Near Spöck, Germany. Aftermath, burnt out remains of Kurt Keller’s He 111 in woodland near Spöck (Schmitz)
21.12.1939 3./(F)121 Heinkel He 111H-2 Wnr.(not recorded) Uffz. Keller Location: Near Spöck, Germany. Aftermath, burnt out remains of Kurt Keller’s He 111 in woodland near Spöck (Schmitz)
21.12.1939 3./(F)121 Heinkel He 111H-2 Wnr.(not recorded) Uffz. Keller Location: Near Spöck, Germany. Pilot Kurt Keller pointing to a map of England (Schmitz)
21.12.1939 3./(F)121 Heinkel He 111H-2 Wnr.(not recorded) Uffz. Keller Location: Near Spöck, Germany. Portrait of Ewald Otto (Schmitz)
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