Luftwaffe Pilot Remains

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Dave Pawlikowski
Pilot remains...
Mon Nov 20 02:02:29 2000


If a pilot was lost over England during the BoB, or Russia during the war, was he buried in an unmarked grave and that's that?

I can imagine the Russian's would have ZERO interest in doing anything for the German's, but I imagine the Brit's woudl be more than accomadating to a war grave. Proper
identification, personal effcts to family after the war, etc...

If a pilots remain were found in a recently excavated airframe, what excatly is the procedure? Is there a commision for this?

Thanks.

ps - sorry about the death motif in my last few e-mails. Some recent research brought these questions up...

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Claudio
Remains
Mon Nov 20 17:24:51 2000


If pilots of the Luftwaffe were recovered with their wreckage after war, they will normaly buried (in the UK) in a cemetery with military honor.

Two places where to get informations :
1.) The Commenwelath War Grave Comission (Link: www.cwgc.com (http://www.cwgc.com))) United Kingdom
2.) Deustcher Kriegsgraberdienst e.V ; Kassel, Germany

Sometimes, recovered remains were brought back into the cemeteries at their hometown in Germany. In that case, the German adress is responsible.

[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 11 December 2000).]

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Mike Young
pilot remains
Mon Nov 20 18:57:09 2000


Most airmen who were lost in Great Britain were buried in local cemeteries during the war.In the 1960's most of these remains were re-interred,together with other German
losses (from POW camps etc.) in the Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof at Cannock Chase in the county of Staffordshire,where they remain to this day.I have visited this site and
can say that it is a very dignified final resting place in a well maintained cemetery in a beautiful part of England.
Also,at Folkestone New Cemetery,Hawkinge in Kent there are 47 graves-two of which are engraved Ein Deutsche Soldat. 43 are Luftwaffe airmen.While I don't know
whether the other two(Kurt Sifar and Fritz Arlt)are from the Luftwaffe.

[Martin Smart]

Brookwood Military Cemetery near Woking, London, is 'home' to several Luftwaffe airmen who died during the BoB. It is primarily an American cemetery, but also contains the graves of various nationalities, including German. Again, it is beautifully maintained, a fitting resting place for those brave servicemen who gave their lives for their countries.


Martin Smart

[Andrew V. Usov]

Dear friends!
You are right! There are a lot of luftwaffe pilots lies in their planes in russian ground.
My interest is restoring Luftwaffe planes. Now I restore BF-109F4\Z W\nr7504
Fw.Rudolf Berg 7\JG3 who is MIA. Mr. Rudolf Berg was killed in air and he was buried as unknown near Novgorod. I'd like to tell information about his destiny to Germany.
Next year I am going to get Bf-109G6 fron it's crash site in Ukraine. I'll give you more information about killed pilot.

Andrew Usov. Moscow, Russia