• Messerschmitt Bf 109

Date of birth:

March 3rd, 1919 (Minsk/Belarus, Soviet Union)

Date of death:

December 11th, 1943 (near Nijtap/Friesland, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn

Service number:

68416/117

Nationality:

German

Konstantin Benzien was a born Belarus who volunteered in the Luftwaffe. It is not certain if he was e Volksdeutsche. Unteroffizier Konstantin Benzien was shot down in the air over Friesland in his Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 (Werk.Nr. 410298), Weisse 6, 4. Staffel, Jagdgeschwader 27 on December 11th, 1943 and crashed with his plane near Nijtap in Friesland, the Netherlands. His remains are buried as an unknown soldier at the German War Cemetery in Ysselsteyn.

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