Hi All,
I am not knowledgable about WW2 aircraft and have received the following request from a German email friend ;
“Looking in our cellar for some Flower pots, I found a circular piece of wood. It has been put together from several pieces/boards/layers of wood. And the story I got from an aunt whose husband, deceased, was a german pilot in WW 2. Anyway, one day a RAF-plane dropped out of the sky and my aunts husband collected the wooden prop of said downed RAF-aircraft, even though it was forbidden to do so…
he and a friend of his hid this prop and eventually made same plates and cups out of it.
So I have this wooden plate right here and attach a photo of it.
Now:
Could you please get me some contact/website or similar, so I could be able to put this story in and maybe be able to find out more about this RAF-plane. It was downed in 194o close to the Baltic Shore of North Germany.
It might be silly, but here I am stuck with it … and my couriosity is aroused.”
thank you,
Rainer
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I imagine if it had only one prop, it was a fighter and what would a fighter be doing over the Baltic in 1940?
Does anybody have any ideas?
thanks in advance,
Al
By: BIGALUK - 8th April 2007 at 21:35
Thank you Nils
Hello Nils,
Many thanks for the quick reply – I have passed your website details onto my friend Rainer who may well contact you himself. I belive he lives in the Gotha area of North Germany.
I hope he can pass more details onto you.
best regards,
Al
By: Pathfinder - 8th April 2007 at 19:13
Hello Rainer,
here I am 😉
I will do my best to help for your question !
In my data base I have a lot of directions of crashed aircraft in the baltic sea.
To can help I need more details (Type of aircraft, possible date of crash).
Let me know what I can do for you…
Regards
Nils
By: BIGALUK - 8th April 2007 at 18:55
Thanks
Roger – thanks very much for the ideas – I’ll see if ‘Pathfinder’ can help.
regards,
Al
By: RPSmith - 8th April 2007 at 16:59
There is, I think, a forum member from N.Germany who researches WW2 aircraft losses – can’t think of his name/handle offhand though.
Found him – name Nils, Forum name Pathfinder. Perhaps if he doesn’t spot this send him a pm?
Roger Smith.
By: RPSmith - 8th April 2007 at 16:54
Al, Hi and welcome to the Forum.
To me it seems quite feasible the aircraft was multi-engined. Possibly when it crashed into the sea the wooden prop blades shattered and some of the pieces would subsequently have floated and may have been found as flotsam.
There is, I think, a forum member from N.Germany who researches WW2 aircraft losses – can’t think of his name/handle offhand though. Let’s hope he sees this – though RAF aircraft/Baltic/sometime in 1940 may be too little info.
Roger Smith.
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