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On one of the afternoon missions of the 368th Fighter Group on April 17, 1945, Thunderbolts of its 397th Squadron were searching ground targets of opportunity between Dresden, Germany, and Prague, Czechoslovakia. They also reached the town of Litomerice, located approx. 35 miles north-west of Prague.
M. Vesely wrote on his book that 2/Lt Herbert F. Koenig was killed at 3.15 p.m. while he was strafing a military column in the vicinity of the village of Mlekojedy (south of Litomerice). His remains were excavated by the American Graves Registration Unit on August 8, 1946 and transferred to an unknown cemetery (as 2/Lt Koenig is not registered in the databases of American Battle Monument Commission or Department of Veterans Affairs.
Radovan Helt, another historian involved in research info air war over this territory, confirms that the aircraft crashed at the road connecting villages Mlekojedy and Lukavec on the left bank of the river Labe (Elbe). It was shot down by light flak, started to burn immediately and eventually hit the high-voltage or telephone lines. German soldiers found the dead body in the wreckage.
There is only a brief note in the relevant mission report of the 397th Squadron on 2/Lt Koenig's fate saying that the aircraft was seen to strike a telephone pole in a strafing pass and crash in vicinity of towns of Lovosice and Litomerice.
The list of locations in the Czechoslovakia where remains of U. S. soldiers were recovered after the war includes the village of Mlekojedy. No name was attached...
Sources:
VESELÝ, Martin. Hvězdy nad Krušnohořím : letecká válka nad severozápadními Čechami 1944-1945. Praha : Naše vojsko, 2005, s. 98
HELT, Radovan. A z nebe padaly bílé hvězdy : letecká válka nad Mostem v souvislostech, březen – duben 1945. Cheb : Svět křídel, 2007, s. 388-389
Air Force Historical Research Agency, 368th Fighter Group – 397th Fighter Squadron, Ops. Rep. — Sq. mission 532 — 17 April 1945
