Date: 1940 May10/10 A/C Type: Ju-88 A-1 SN: 6018 Code: 5J + AT A/C Nickname:
 File: 372 Airfrce: Luftwaffe Sqn/Unit: 9./KG 4 Mission/Raid: Bombing Amsterdam Schiphol airfield
1 P Lt. Reinhard Graf                   KIA 9    
2 Observer Ofeldw. Rudolf Mölle             KIA 10    
3 Bordfunker Gefr. Gerhardt Neuber          KIA 11    
4 F/engineer Uffz. Otto Pälchen                KIA 12    
5     13    
6     14    
7     15    
8     16                    

Crashed south of Schiphol airfield. Suspected in water, possibly Kagerplas. Claim of Dutch Fokker D21 points into this direction.
Crew was missing for some time. (Re-) buried 20 July 1940 in Amsterdam, no entry data in our files. However reburied in Ysselsteyn
in the 'Amsterdam-plot' CW, graves 261, 262, 287 and 288. Of crash in Lake IJsselmeer no evidence found (2 Jan. 2015).
 



Sources

- internet forums
- Survey 'Duitse gevallenen meidagen 1940' by Lt. Col. (ret.) E.H. Brongers
- ZZairwar Amsterdam burial files
- Lake IJsselmeer crash and recovery files ZZairwar



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