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WW2 100 – 2 April 1941 – ‘No longer an Enemy’: Oberleutnant (Oblt) Hans-Ludwig Wolff (1912-41), German Air Force

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Continued from 2 April 1941: No longer an enemy: UNTEROFFIZIER (Uffz) HANS WAGNER (c.1910-41)  German Air Force  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_63.html       Image credit: www.billiongraves.com   A Heinkel He III bomber is recorded as having crashed at sea two miles south of Budleigh Salterton on 2 April 1941. Hans-Ludwig Wolff was the observer in the Heinkel's five-man aircrew. His body was the only one recovered from the sea.  His grave in the Higher Cemetery at Exeter is one of 6,196 German war graves maintained by the excellent Commonwealth War Graves Commission.  He  is buried in Section Z, Row K, Grave 64. Some information has about the Heinkel's crew has come from the website  www.denkmalprojekt.org  of the excellent Denkmalprojekt – literally Monument Project – founded in 2003 by New York attorney  Thilo C. Agthe, primarily for genealog...