Rolf Wenkhaus was among an entire crew of six killed when their plane, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 "Condor," was shot down during World War II. The Condor was a four-engine bomber that specialized in attacking shipping. Wenkhuas's plane, with identification code F8 MH 0093, was shot down January 31, 1942, off the coast of Bloody Foreland, County Donegal, Ireland by the HMS Genista, a Flower-class Corvette utilized as a convoy escort. The body of the Condor's pilot, Werner Bornefeld, washed up at Bunbeg, Ireland two weeks later.
