03.01.1944 16./KG2 Messerschmitt Me 410A-1 Wnr.420005 Fw. Hess

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Mission: Attack on London, England.

Date: 3rd January 1944

Time: Between 21.35 and 00.40 hours.

Unit: 16 Staffel./Kampfgeschwader 2

Type: Messerschmitt Me 410A-1

Werke/Nr.420005

Coded: U5 + AJ

Location: In the sea off Dover (Straights of Dover), Kent, England.

Pilot: Feldwebel. Friedrich Hess. 58214/272 – Missing. (Born 25.01.1921 in Bechtheim).

Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Max von Poblotzki. 57359/525 – Missing. (Born 07.10.1921 in Penzing).

Main image - Feldwebel. Friedrich Hess missing in action.

REASON FOR LOSS:

This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by F/O R. D. Bergemann (NZ) and F/O K. R. Bishop in a Mosquito HK461 of No. 488 Squadron. The Messerschmitt Me 410 exploded in the air and crashed into the Straights of Dover.

Burial detail:

None – Sea Grave.

Researched and compiled by former member M. Brownless. Special thanks to Katherina Hess for her help in constructing this page of remembrance in memory of her lost brother. January 2014. Page reconstructed by Alexander D King September 2025.

Friedrich's pilot badge donated to the Aircrew Remembrance Society by his surviving sister.
Translation of letters of condolence from 16./KG2 Staffelkapitän Oblt. Hermann Walther to the father of Friedrich dated January 1944.
Translation of letters of condolence from 16./KG2 Staffelkapitän Oblt. Hermann Walther to the father of Friedrich dated January 1944.
German lost at sea memorial.

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