In the night of 5/6 August 1941, Karlruhe and Aachen are the target of the black bombers. Some night fighters of the 1.Staffel start their engines on Sint-Truiden and soon climb into the Limburg sky. The personnel of the searchlight batteries try to catch one of the bombers droning above their heads in a beam of light. Together with the pilots of the 1.Staffel, they will succeed in bringing down five aircraft over Belgium.
Again it is Fw Reinhard Kollak who opens the battlefield; at three minutes past midnight he scores his first victory, a Wellington of the 149 "East India" Squadron which crashed in Sint-Martens-Voeren on the hamlet of 'De Plank'. The six occupants die in the flames. Some of the remains can only be recovered, identification proved impossible for the Germans. The R1524 'OJ-P' had taken off from Mildenhall that evening at 10:11 pm for a raid on Mannheim.
The graves of the crew, to the cemetery of Voeren
