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Date: Saturday, 16 March 1940
Place: Berlin, Germany
Photographer: unknown
Major Fritz Doench (right), Gruppenkommandeur of I.Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 30 (KG 30), discusses his unit’s attack on the Royal Navy anchorage at Scapa Flow on 16 March 1940 at a press reception a few days after the high‑profile mission, which, although alarming the British, did not achieve its intended results. Doench, who would be decorated with the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 19 June 1940, is seen here pointing at a map of the naval and airfield targets at Scapa Flow with Oberleutnant Hunno Phillipps (left) of I./KG 26 and Oberleutnant Helgo Magnussen of 3./KG 30. Phillipps was killed in action on the night of 19/20 November 1940 when his He 111 caught on a balloon cable and crashed in southern England while on a raid to Birmingham, and Magnussen perished when his Ju 88A‑2 crashed at Oudenrijn, in the Netherlands, on 10 May 1940. Gruppenkommandeur Doench himself was killed in an accidental aircrash on June 14th, 1942. At that moment he was Abteilungs-Chef in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium with the rank of Oberst. The picture was taken by an unknown photographer from Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann, and was first published by 'Berliner Volkszeitung' on 18 March 1940.
Source :
"Ju 88 Aces of World War 2" by Robert Forsyth
https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/pilots-of-the-kampfgeschwader-30-after-their-flight-in-the-news-photo/543893525
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/29057/Doench-Fritz.htm
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/airwar-ww2-the-pilots.54010/page-60
