Missing In Action JG 2

Major Helmut Wick's Bf 109 E. On 28 November 1940, the Kommodore of JG 2 went missing south of the Isle of Wight. His body was never recovered and is thus still listed as missing, though it is almost certain that he perished that day.

Major Helmut Wick’s Bf 109 E. On 28 November 1940, the Kommodore of JG 2 went missing south of the Isle of Wight. His body was never recovered and is thus still listed as missing, though it is almost certain that he perished that day.

Here follows the list of MIA pilots of JG 2. Any question concerning this list is welcomed. If you have the answer to just one of these entries, I would be glad to include your remark and name.
06/06/40 Lt. Heinz
Hoffmann
2./JG 2 Bf 109 E-4 Unknown reason,
Roye
25/07/40 Lt. Hans Schmidt III./JG 2 Bf 109 E Combat with Spitfire,
crashed into the sea near Wight island
04/09/40 Oblt. Karl Müller 8./JG 2 Bf 109 E-1
(2678)
Combat with Spitfire,
crashed into the sea off Dungeness
30/09/40 Fw. Wilhelm
Hermes
2./JG 2 Bf 109 E-4
(0847)
Combat with fighter,
Dorchester
14/10/40 Obgfr. Johannes
Lux
7./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7
(0720)
white 12
Combat with fighter,
Lesley Bill – Sway, Hants
17/06/41 Uffz. Heinrich
Seuffert
7./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2
(5522)
Combat with fighter,
crashed into the sea
NW Cherbourg (Pl. Qu. 2018)
24/06/41 Fw. Helmut
Krause
9./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2 Combat with fighter,
near Calais
07/07/41 Ofw. Hans Tilly 3./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2
(12816)
yellow 12
Unknown reason,
(in the sea), St. Pol
11/07/41 Oblt. Walter
Miksche
St. Fü. Erg.St./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7
(2041)
Meteo flight, crashed into the sea
(Pl. Qu. 2184/15W),
between Wight island and Cherbourg
14/07/41 Lt. Werner Roll Erg.Gr./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7 Unknown reason,
Airfield Théville (Cherbourg)
17/07/41 Lt. Wolfgang
Flügel
Erg.Gr./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7 Unknown reason,
Airfield Théville (Cherbourg)
16/08/41 Fw. Friedrich
Mönke
Erg.Gr./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7
(6478)
Unknown reason, crashed into the sea
E. Cherbourg (Pl. Qu. 1014/15 West)
17/08/41 Uffz. Erich Rüdel 5./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2
(12612)
Combat, crashed into the sea
W. Le Touquet
04/09/41 Gefr. Günter
Irmler
Erg.Gr./JG 2 Bf 109 E-7
(6517)
white 15
Convoy escort, crashed into the sea
15 km N. La Hague Cape
17/09/41 Uffz. Heinrich
Seuffert
7./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2
(5522)
Combat with fighter, crashed into the sea NW Cherbourg (Pl. Qu. 2018)
08/12/41 Lt. Walter Höhler Stab -> 8./JG 2 Bf 109 F-4
(7099)< +
Combat, crashed into the sea
off Boulogne
26/03/42 Uffz. Heinz
Jahnke
1./JG 2 Bf 109 F-4
(13015)
White 9
Combat,
crashed into the sea
20 km SSW. Le Havre
31/03/42 Uffz. Gottfried
Weiser
13(J)./JG 2 Bf 109 F-2/B
(8171)
Combat, crashed into the sea,
parachuted 30 km N. Alderney island
(PlQu. 30242/15 West)
21/04/42 Obgfr. Franz
Langhammer
10(J)./JG 2 Bf 109 F-4/B
(13005)
Blue 12
Unknown reason,
Portland
25/04/42 Fw. Rudolf
Steinert
1./JG 2 Bf 109 F-4
(7657)
White 14
Combat with fighter,
crashed into the sea
10 km W. Le Touquet
31/05/42 Uffz. Waldemar
Kipnich
5./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(125254)
Combat with fighter,
crashed into the sea 5 km N. Dieppe
31/05/42 Uffz. Rudolf
Schwarzer
10(J)./JG 2 Bf 109 F-4/B
(7610)
AA fire,
crashed into the sea off Bognor Regis
10/06/42 Fw. Karl Nowak 9./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(0282)
Combat with Spitfire,
Channel (Pl. Qu. 1173/15)
20/06/42 Lt. Hans Heim 2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(2055)
Black 3
Combat 50 km,
NW Fécamp
20/06/42 Fw. Günther Keil 2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(0238)
Black 4
Combat,
50 km NW Fécamp
15/07/42 Lt. Jakob Augustin 7./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(22096)
(122103)
Combat with fighter,
crashed into the sea
Pl. Qu. 2188(2186 ?)/15 West
18/08/42 Lt. Karl-Heinz
Thalacker
6./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(20328)
Yellow 6
Crashed into the sea,
Cherbourg
19/08/42 Uffz. Kurt Epsiger 1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-3
(137015)
4 white
Combat, collision with Spitfire,
crashed into the sea
off Dieppe (Pl. Qu. 7/8)
19/08/42 Lt. Reinhardt
Böhm
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(0341)
Black 9
Unknown reason,
Dieppe
19/08/42 Ofw. Karl
Schweikart
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(0320)
Combat with fighter,
crashed into the sea off Dieppe
19/08/42 Uffz. Günther
Brietz
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(2185)
(2186?)
AA fire,
crashed into the sea N. Dieppe
19/08/42 Uffz. Günther
Geguns
6./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(5216)
Yellow 2
Combat with Spitfire,
crashed into the sea off Dieppe
19/08/42 Lt. Franz Sommer 6./JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(5223)
Yellow 11
Combat with Spitfire,
area of Dieppe
03/09/42 Uffz. Walter
Höfer
10.(J)/JG 2 Fw 190 A-3
(2242)
AA fire,
Torquay (GB)
17/09/42 Uffz. Hans Walter
Wandschneider
10.(J)/JG 2 Fw 190 A-2
(0215)
Combat with Spitfire, crashed into the see, Channel (Pl. Qu. 1180/15)
17/12/42 Fw. Gerhard
Heinz
Stab II./JG 26./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(140736)
Landing on the sea,
near Bizerte Cap Ras Ben Zibnra
30/12/42 Uffz. Karl Löhse 7./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(142470)
12 white
Combat with US bomber,
crashed into the sea
Pl. Qu. 4864/14 on 11h50
21/01/43 Uffz. Heinz
Gabler
4./JG 2 Fw 190 A-3
(0265)
6 white
Combat with 8 P-40,
W. Kairouan
26/01/43 Fw. Karl Blase 10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(145680)
7 Blue
Jabo raid over London,
crashed into the sea
10/02/43 Uffz. Walter
Leber
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(145655)
14 yellow
Combat with 4 Spitfire,
NW Caen
26/02/43 Uffz. Kurt
Bressler
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-5
(152588)
Combat with 2 Spitfire and 4 Typhoon,
Channel
26/02/43 Fw. Hermann
Rohne
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(140735)
Combat with 2 Spitfire and 4 Typhoon,
Channel
27/02/43 Lt. Karl
Müller-Göbs
II./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(7063)
Black 9
— 
14/04/43 Ofw. Rudolf
Eisele (Eiserle?)
8./JG 2 Fw 190 A-5
(152634)
Crashed into the sea,
German Flak off Brest
16/04/43 Lt. Hans-Joachim
Schmidt
8./JG 2 Fw 190 A-5
(152705)
13 noir
Fuel shortage,
crashed into the sea W. Brest
16/04/43 Uffz. Eugen
Rowedder
11./JG 2 Bf 109 G-3
(16297)
Blue 15
Emergency take-off,
Airfield Triqueville / Pont-Audemer
17/04/43 Uffz. Franz
Helbing
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(145691)
Combat, parachuted,
crashed into the sea off Dieppe
13/05/43 Uffz. Oskar Born
(Gustav Bern?)
6./JG 2 Bf 109 G-4
(14983)
Yellow 3
— 
17/05/43 Lt. Lothar Werner St. Kap. 5./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(15296)
Black 9
Combat over the sea,
N. Morlaix
29/05/43 Uffz. Hans
Lohkamp
1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(2414)
White 5
Emergency take-off,
Airfield Dinard
30/05/43 Uffz. Richard
Heidt
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(147067)
26 white
Emergency take-off,
Bernay
30/05/43 StFw. Fritz
Stritzel
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(142331)
23 white
Emergency take-off,
Bernay
26/06/43 Lt. Walter
Rentsch
11./JG 2 Bf 109 G-3
(16271)
10 Blue
Combat with 30 P-47,
N. Dieppe
04/07/43 Lt. Rudolf
Wieprecht
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(142454)
9 Blue
Combat with bomber,
over the sea
30/07/43 Fw. Rudolf
Holzmann
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(A-5?)
(152633)
12 white
Mouth of Schelde
16/08/43 Uffz. Herbert
Weichert
12./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(15422)
Combat,
Evreux
19/08/43 Lt. Hans Rimarski 5./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(19877)
28 white
Emergency take-off,
combat with Marauder,
Epinay
31/08/43 Uffz. Hans
De la Camp
(Dolakamp?)
7./JG 2 Fw 190 A-5/U8
(1504)
9 white
Combat,
over the sea
04/09/43 Lt. Ernst
Heinemann
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-6
(530414)
White 11
— 
23/10/43 Uffz. Christian
Fuchs
12./JG 2 Fw 190 A-6
(500713)
Combat, crashed into the sea,
Lannion (Pl Qu. 4087/15 West)
23/10/43 Uffz. Erich
Nozika
12./JG 2 Fw 190 A-5
(410211)
Combat, crashed into the sea,
Lannion (Pl. Qu. 4087/15 West)
17/12/43 Fw. Gerhard
Heinz
6./JG 2 Fw 190 A-4
(736)
Escort flight,
landing on the sea, Cap Ras Ben Zibra
04/02/44 Lt. Rudolf Detmar 4./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(410493)
Combat with B-17,
SE. Toulon
05/02/44 Obgfr. Bernhard
Klenke
7./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(20191)
Orléans
13/02/44 Uffz. Karl Rieger 6./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(162183)
Combat with P-47Arpajon,
33 km SSW. Paris
22/02/44 Flg. Karl Burk 10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-6
(550533)
Combat with bomber,
Roosendaal, 22 km WSW. Breda
22/02/44 Uffz. Erhard
Tschirmer
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-6
(530417)
Combat with bomber,
Roosendaal
02/03/44 Uffz.
Carlfriedrich
Schöneberger
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-7
(642008)
Combat with B-17, between
Sedan and Charleville-Mézières
11/05/44 Uffz. Albert
Kreuzer
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(170322)
Combat with P-47,
Vendome
06/06/44 Fw. Müller 12./JG 2 FW 190 Reason and place unknown
07/06/44 Gefr. Manfred
Fieseler
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(730419)
Combat,
Caen
08/06/44 EUffz. Arnold
Burgetsmeier
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(730490)
Combat with P-51,
Bayeux
17/06/44 Uffz. Helmut
Schulte
6./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(441315)
Combat with P-47,
E. Flers
20/06/44 Uffz. Karl Keil 1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(170130)
Unknown reason,
area of Caen
20/06/44 Uffz. Ernst Lange 2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(730952)
Unknown reason,
W. Carentan
24/06/44 Ofw. Josef Lorey 5./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(164945)
Combat with P-51,
near Evreux
25/06/44 Oblt. Arnim
Matern
8./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(412695)
Combat with 16 P-38 and 15 P-51,
near Bernay
28/06/44 Lt. Horst Nitz St. Fü. 11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(172694)
8 Yellow
Combat,
near Caen
28/06/44 Lt. Ernst Dieter
Wiehenbrauk
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(680579)
5 Yellow
Combat,
near Caen
04/07/44 Uffz. Gerhard
Schulmeister
7./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(164986)
Combat with P-47,
near Beaumont-le-Roger
05/07/44 Ofhr. Hans-Paul
Grüne
Stab I./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(170381)
Combat with Spitfire
NE. Evreux
06/07/44 Uffz. Alfred Beis 1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171030)
Combat with 30 P-47,
Mantes
06/07/44 Gefr. Otto
Aulinger
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(430697)
Near Caen
16/07/44 Lt. Hans Wurm 9./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(731022)
Near Caen
16/07/44 Lt. Karlheinz Elsner St. Fü. 10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(172964)
Near Caen
25/07/44 Ofw. Karlheinz
Munsche
9./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(690139)
Unknown reason,
Caen
25/07/44 Lt. Hans Joachim
Voormann
12./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(431157)
Unknown reason,
Caen
26/07/44 Uffz. Christian
Bauer
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(731073)
Unknown reason,
area of Caen
28/07/44 Gefr. Paul Bauer 12./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171620)
8 Blue
Combat,
near S. Saint-Lô
03/08/44 Fhr. Engelbert
Sommer
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(170960)
< – +
Unknown reason,
near Avranches
08/08/44 Uffz. Ernst
Schande
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-6/R6
(530120)
8 Black
Combat
13/08/44 Uffz. Johannes
Kock
8./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(413740)
9 Blue
Combat with Spitfire and Mustangs,
near Le Mans
14/08/44 Lt. Gerhard
Buchert
Stab I./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171457)
Combat with P-38 and P-47, area of Voise – Santeuil, 20 km SE. Chartres
14/08/44 Oblt. Hermann
Aebert
St. Fü. 1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171663)
Combat with P-38 and P-47, area of Voise – Santeuil, 20 km SE. Chartres
14/08/44 Uffz. Helmut
Saint-Paul
1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171647)
Combat with P-38 and P-47, area of Voise – Santeuil, 20 km SE. Chartres
17/08/44 Gefr. Fritz
Woelm
2./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171627)
Combat with fighter,
area of Falaise
17/08/44 Ofhr. Karl Heinz
Hecker
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(172743)
Unknown reason,
road Falaise-St-Pierre sur Dives
18/08/44 Uffz. Johannes
Austel
1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171685)
Combat with Spitfire and P-47,
S. Rouen
18/08/44 Ofhr. Helmuth
Ringe
1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171661)
Combat with Spitfire and P-47,
S. Rouen
18/08/44 Gefr. Heinz
Raeder
6./JG 2 Bf 109 G-6
(413718)
Unknown reason,
near Argentan
27/08/44 Uffz. Edwin Both 3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(173069)
Combat with P-47,
20 km NE. Paris
12/09/44 Uffz. Helmut
Klaube
1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(173003)
Combat with P-51,
area of Wiesbaden
06/10/44 Lt. Rudolf
Wirtgen
St. Fü. 1./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171572)
4 white
Combat with Spitfire,
area of s’ Hertogenbosch
28/10/44 Uffz. Ernst
Wiesinger
10./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171643)
Combat with P-47,
area of Köln – Aachen
18/11/44 Lt. Hans Peter
Hansen
St. Kap. 9./JG 2 Fw 190 A-9
(750157)
12 white
Combat,
area of Hanau – Gelnhausen
19/11/44 Fhj. Uffz. Karl
Ernst Habermann
11./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171707)
Unknown reason,
W. Köln
17/12/44 Lt. Otto Snobeck Stab I./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(737375)
Combat with P-47,
area of St. Vith
17/12/44 Fhr. Joachim
Selpin
3./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(750154)
Combat with P-47,
area of St. Vith
17/12/44 Gefr. Helmut
Eube
4./JG 2 Fw 190 A-8
(171735)
Combat with P-47,
area of St. Vith
17/12/44 Gefr. Konrad
Fischer
6./JG 2 Bf 109 G-14
(416940) or
461940?
10 Black
Trier
Seems to have been KIA on 25th September 1944 near Bitburg as mentioned on his grave in a cemetery near Bitburg. (Thanks to Claudio Becker )
18/12/44 Obgfr. Eduard
Melda
7./JG 2 Bf 109 K-4
(330439)
Combat with P-47,
near S. Aachen
23/12/44 Obgfr. Karl Heinz
Maas
7./JG 2 Bf 109 G-14
(780330)
9 white
Combat with P-47, (area of Bastogne) Loch, 5 km SW. Rheinbach
24/12/44 Uffz. Otto Kühn 7./JG 2 Bf 109 G-14
(464277)
5 Yellow
Combat with P-38,
E. Bastogne
01/01/45 Fhr. Richard
Storkan
1./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(210288)
Bodenplatte raid, AA fire,
area of Liège
01/01/45 Gefr. Werner
Piesker
4./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(500116)
15 Black
Bodenplatte raid,
near Liège
14/01/45 Uffz. Fritz
Ohlendorf
2./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(603383)
600383
Combat with Spitfire,
N. Hagenau
16/01/45 Ofhr. Klaus
Schmidt
3./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(500396)
Combat with Spitfire,
Lambsheim, 15 km SW. Worms
25/02/45 Oblt. Werner
Rossbach
9./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(600766)
Unknown reason,
area of Heidelberg – Mannheim
01/03/45 Obgfr. Herbert
Hanck
3./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(500097)
Combat with P-47,
SSE. Mannheim / Speyer
02/03/45 Ofhr. Werner
Stempel
1./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(500393)
Combat with B-26, P-47 and P-51,
area of Mainz
Werner Stempel bailed out, but badly, he feld into the Lahn-River. He is buried at the local cemetery at Stockhausen, ca. 13 Km W of Wetzlar. (Thanks to Claudio Becker)
06/03/45 Obgfr. Gustav
Scheibel
2./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9 Ferry flight,
area of Westerwald
09/03/45 Obgfr. Manfred
Ludwig
1./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(210252)
Combat with B-26,
area of Wiesbaden – Giessen
09/03/45 Ofhr. Joachim
Stempel
I./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(500393)
Unknown reason
13/03/45 FhjUffz.
Wolfgang Baum
7./JG 2 Fw 190 D-9
(600159)
AA fire,
Willingen, near Malmédy

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