Vfw. Adolf Techow, Jasta 7

[Buddecke]

Hello,
I am looking for more information about this pilot.
Can anybody help. Thanks.

Flieger und Luftschiffer

Best Regards

Buddecke

[MASTIFF]

Guten Tag,

From JWC:

Vfw Adolf Techow, Js7, Killed near Dixmuiden in combat with Camels. Possibly by Belgian pilots Adj G Lallemand and Lt H Cornelius at 1410hrs.

From The Jasta Pilots:

Js18, 21 July 1917 - 21 July 1917 (?) Js7, 21 July 1917 - 22 October 1917, KIA.
Born 5 May 1893, Hamburg. Killed near Dixmuiden in combat with a Camel.

From COTGAS:

Birthdate given as 19 May 1893.


Cheers,
Tony

[R Gannon]

Hi Buddecke & Tony

Joseph Jacobs details Techow's final fight in his diary, which can be seen in Cross & Cockade International Vol 25 #2 1994. In essence together with Vfw's Sowa & Lander he attacked a 2-seater somewhere near Dixmude, whereupon 6 Sopwith 2-seaters (not Camels!) dived on them and Techow was shot down, the wings of his Albatros falling off in the process. SK Taylor who provided wonderfully detailed footnotes for the article makes a good case that their opponents may have been DH4's from 57 Sqn who had a fight with 3 Albatros scouts, although there is a discrepancy in locations. Jacobs with the rest of Js 7 had an indecisive scrap with some SPAD's near Dixmude.

Be interesting if someone can provide better details of the Belgian claim.

Cheers Russ

[Igor Starikow]

Adolph Albert Emil Mathias TECHOW was the son of a police officer Hans Friedrich Adolph Louis Techow and his wife Bertha Friederike Luise geb. Koch.

World War I began in the Infanterie-Regiment „Hamburg“ (2. Hanseatisches) Nr. 76.

Source: Sterbeurkunde.

Best wishes,
Igor