Crash Site Focke Wulff Fw 190 A-6

At this site, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A6 ‘Grune 2’ crashed on 6 March 1944. The information board placed here commemorates this event and the crew member who perished.

The aircraft was a single-seater and was flown by Pilot Flugzeugführer Unteroffizier Alfred Roth, 3./Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 43, Nr. 644 Luftwaffe, born 11-08-1921.

On 6 March 1944, the US Air Force conducted its first major air attack from England on the industrial areas near Berlin, ‘The Big City’ (as the city was called) and Genshage. With 730 bombers, including four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and four-engine Consolidated B-24 Liberators and a fighter escort of 800 US P-47s fighters for protection, took part in the attack.

Luftwaffe fighters attacked the bombers stream. So did Fw 190 fighters, including the Jagdgeschwader 300 that had taken off from Deelen and of which Alfred Roth was one. Pilot First Lieutenant B. Hill of the 355th Fighter Group USAAF, flying a P-47 Republic Thunderbolt from RAF Steeple Morden, Hertfordshire, England, claimed to have shot down Unteroffizier Alfred Roth's Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-6. Alfred Roth, was killed in the crash.

As was customary, perished crews were buried at their base, if there was the opportunity. So was Alfred Roth, he was buried at Ehrenfriedhof Zijpendaal cemetery in Arnhem near Deelen and later reburied in Ysselstein.

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• Text: Han Siemerink
• Photos: Han Siemerink