Career
A veteran of the campaigns in Russia and Africa, he was shot down in his Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter over Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, during the Gothic Lincolnshire operations, on 9 September 1944, by a gunner in an American B-25 Mitchell bomber. Ofw. Volke"s remains and parts of his aircraft were located and dug out of a farmer"s field just north of Modena by an Italian amateur war history research team (the Romagna Air Finders) in July 2007, nearly 63 years after he was shot down.
