Date:1943 Jan 27/27			A/C Type: Fw 190  A-4		SN: 5604		Code: Gelbe 3		A/C Nickname:
File: 527		Airfrce: Luftwaffe		Sqn/Unit: 3./JG1			Mission/Raid: interception Allied bombers attacked Lemmer
1	P	Feldw. Fritz Koch                     KIA					9
2							10
3							11
4							12
5							13
6							14
7							15
8							16
Assumed shot dead in his cockpit by B-24 gunners. Flew into B-24D 41-23690 crew Cargile 44BG and severed the left wing and tail. Both aircraft went down under West-Terschelling and fell into the Wadden Sea (orange dot under island).

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Fritz Koch washed ashore just north of Harlingen on 7 April 1943. Today he rests in Ysselsteyn Plot AR, row 5, grave 103.





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