Captured Whitley (old thread 2006)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the link and putting up the pictures, they were much appreciated.

Tim.

Hi,

Would it be possible to let me where you found the pictures, or let me know where I can find any further information? Thank you.

Tim

Tim,

Unfortunately I have no further details as I have had the photos about 20 years but no details on the source

This may be of use but will need to be translated http://www.spurensuchesh.de/fzschoenha.html

Whitley

Hi Elliott,

Thank you for the welcome and the pictures. The first one looks familiar, I think it’s the one we have. Apparently the chap who took them sent them to the Air Ministry a few years later to pass onto the crew.

Your Whitley project sounds interesting and thank you for the offer, I may well take you up on it in the future if that’s ok.

Tim

Hi Tim

Welcome to the forum! Here are a few other pics of your fathers Whitley you may or may not have seen before.

If you want to visit our Whitley rebuild you are welcome.

Hi Beachcomber,

Thank you for the response and the link to the site. I know he used be fly in Whitley 3’s and then 5’s, and remember him saying about the way they seemed to fly nose down.

Tim

Whitley pics

Hi Tim
Only yesterday I was researching Whitley T4269 and I found a few sites with Whitley pics I came aross the photos on this thread but find them again but here is a great site for Whitley pics and some 58 squadron Whitley’s
http://www.luchtoorlog.be

Whitley v

Hi,

I know this is an old thread but I’ve just come across it after searching for information about my Dad. He was Sgt Hughes wireless operator in the Whitley you have the photos of. My Mother has a copy of the photo that appears in the book ‘The Other Few’ but these pictures are really interesting!

Unfortunately Dad died eight years ago and did not really talk much about the enforced landing near the beach but I remember him talking about his squadron emblem of the owl (No.58) and the years he spent in various POW camps, Dulag (Interrogation/reception), Barth, Sagan, Heydekrug, Konigsberg, and Tischow.

Would it be possible to let me where you found the pictures, or let me know where I can find any further information? Thank you.

Tim

P.S.

On the pictures from Dave you can see the harbour of Kiel or Eckernförde.
I can´t recognize enough to can say more about the harbour

Danke für die Info Christian !

Here my report of the forced landet Whithley:
Forced landet on the beach of Schönhagen (northeast of Eckernförde) on 10.09.1940 at 04.58
Aircraft threw bombs northwest of Kiel and was hit from 2cm-Flak of the T.V.A.-Süd and Untergruppenkommando Eckernförde, with participation of the weapons from Untergruppenkommando Nordwest, Nordost, Mitte and Südwest.

The Target was Bremen

@Dave

can I take this pictures to a report for my website (I can put your name as surce) ?

Regards from Kiel

Nils

We have two differnt batches of photos labelled “Kiel” and one book saying “Bremen”. Bureaucrats make mistakes … There´s a German submarine lying off New Jersey, however the German list of lost submarines states it was sunk off Morrocco. My money is on Kiel.

Maybe Pathfinder will be around soon, he found the first pictures of the Whitley in the archieves of Kiel.

Thanks for this, the photographs state it was bombing Keil early in the war but the previous thread implies not

I guess it will be se same “GE-T” am mentioned in this thread:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35373

T4134 GE-T

P/O JE Thompson
P/O TH Hadley
Sgt KD Hall
Sgt W Hughes
Sgt W Bull

All PoWs, Sept. 1940

BTW: Are the wings that muddy? I cannot see neither a camouflage pattern nor the RAF-roundels?