Böblingen

The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 2011LT on an operation to Stuttgart. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Böblingen, some 17 km southwest of Stuttgart. Two crew members were killed and five others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Graeme Smyth Mant, pilot, †
Sgt John Joseph Rider, flight engineer,
P/O John Lietke, navigator,
F/Lt Vyvyan Gordon Tregarthen Davis, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Graham Henry Millett, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Arthur Ernest Spencer, air gunner,
Sgt Gordon Roy Castle, air gunner.

The single engine airplane departed Böblingen on a flight to Breslau (now Wrocław), carrying three passengers and four crew members. En route, the pilot encountered poor weather conditions and low visibility due to heavy snow falls. Too low, the airplane impacted trees and crashed in a hilly and wooded terrain. The wreckage was found four days later, on May 3. All seven occupants were killed.
Crew:
Lt Col Walter Braun,
Flt/Inst Hermann Sacht,
Airman Franz Heinisch,
Airman Otto Deichmann.
Passengers:
Gen Maj Heinz Höring,
Mrs. Tony Höring,
Mrs. Hanna Höring.

The crew was taking part to an airshow at Böblingen Airfield. Two aircrafts, an Udet U12a Flamingo operated by the Deutsche Luftfahrt and registered D-867 and a Klemm L.27 registered D-1781 were engaged in a demo flight, connected to each other by a ladder. At an altitude of 300-400 metres, one of the pilot in the Udet, Fritz Schindler, successfully climbed from the Udet (below position) to the Klemm (upper position). But while descending via the ladder, the upper aircraft was caught by a gust of wind and lost height. Both aircraft collided, entered a dive and crashed. All four occupants were killed.
Crew:
Walter Spengler,
Fritz Schindler.