Uffz Hans Krausel was a radio operator in a Junkers Ju 88-equipped Luftwaffe long-range reconnaissance wing. Joining his unit in Russia during the summer of 1941, he flew many scouting missions over the central sector. Hans and his crew, Oblt Helmut Kirchner (pilot), Oblt Hans-Juergen Fiebrantz (observer) and Uffz Werner Koch (flight engineer) were fortunate to be shot down just the once by a Soviet 1-16 'Rata' and crash-landed in no man's land. Nobody was injured and allsuccessfully returned to German lines very quickly.Hans remembers flying in Russia as being quite tiring. One sortie, which necessitated their Ju 88 being fitted with long-range tanks, involved a nine-hour flight from Smolensk via Saratow, along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Urals and back.
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