On the night of 9/10th of July 1941 three Junkers Ju88's set out from Schipol in Holland to carry out anti-shipping patrols over the North Sea (possibly at different times). All three aircraft flew into mist and were seperated. This Bernberg manufactured aircraft headed north and hit the cliff top at Brackenbury Wyke at 00.06hrs. The tail of the aircraft fell back down the cliff and the rest of it broke up and was spread over the fields at the top of the cliff on land near Cliff Farm. The incident is well known of locally. All four German airmen died, they were:

Pilot - Oblt Edgar Peisert, aged ? Of ? Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (now Cleveland).

Observer - Lt Rudolf Belloff, aged 22, of, Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (now Cleveland).

Wireless Operator - Gefr Gerhard Vogel, aged 23, of ? Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (now Cleveland).

Air Gunner - Fw Karl Kinder, aged 26, of ? Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (now Cleveland).

The fours gravestones at Thornaby on Tees Cemetery.

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A general overview of where this aircraft crashed, in the green fields to the east of Staithes.

I have yet to locate the exact crash location although a map reference published at the Yorkshire Air Museum puts it along this line of cliffs (shown above). Upon impact the tail section fell back down the cliffs into the sea whilst the front part of the aircraft continued across the fields above (below).

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Two aircraft that were flying a similar mission as the crew of this aircraft on the same night also crashed in Yorkshire, they came down at Speeton near Filey. One at 23.45hrs, on 9th July 1941 and the other at 01.15hrs on 10th July. I detail these incident on this website in the main "Yorkshire" section.