The German aircraft shot down a Junkers Ju-88 with code F6 + AK (number 0285) from the Nazi Luftwaffe was shot down in the 25 July 1941 by the pilots of the 3rd Fighter Air about Istria and made an emergency landing in a clearing in the forest near Moscow. Five days later, it installed on Sverdlov Square (now Theatre Square) in Moscow city. Eastern Front, Second World War.
The aircraft shot down belonged to the 2nd Far Reconnaissance Squadron of the 122 th Intelligence Group (2.(F)/122), aircraft shot down conducting reconnaissance flight to Moscow-Kaluga region.
The Luftwaffe crew:
Lieutenant Wilhelm Stuckmann the pilot of the Junkers Ju-88 medium bomber;
Sergeant-Major Anders, Wilfred – navigator;
Corporal Bruno Sievert – radio operator;
Corporal Werner Ludwig – gunner.
Information about the fate of the Junkers Ju-88 crew is not. The German military archives are listed as missing.
Place: Moscow, Soviet Russia
Time taken: July 1941