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zorglub
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Hello Dan ,

I’ve just send you a PM , you’ll have the picture .
The interest about MB800 in Belgium is that it was fitted with a Griffon Mk IV which is very rare , only 25 built.
Last time I went to German archives held at ECPA Paris , there were a lot of picture of crashed EN235 EB-S ( F/O R.H Hogarth , killed July 18 , 1943 , same mission Slack was lost ) near Abbeville where he was buried. The plane did not bury itself , was just a wreckage on the ground and the Griffon engine could be seen. The German pilot who probably claimed Hogarth is also pictured by the wreckage but I haven’t identified him yet.

I don’t know about Stenborg’s MB805 and what was found.

Zorglub