Crashed Mosquito on 21.01.45 near Kiel ?

Hi all,

at first I will thank for all the helpful postings here !
Up to date you can find my report about the shooting and crash of the Mossie NS509 north east of Kiel on my website: http://www.spurensuchesh.de/news.htm

Best regards from Kiel

Nils

Thanks for the photos !
Maybe I can found next year more parts.

Now I hope to became a contact to Norman Malayney. But my question in the Mossie forum is not answered…

Nils

…and while I’m at it….

The dimming shield from a standard Air Ministry warning lamp. Like the button cover, they can be flipped up or down, as required. Yours has broken off, just below the hinge.

There were probably several of these in the Mosquito cockpit.

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Hi Nils,

From my first posting, the button cover is for a fire extinguisher switch. It normally guards the button from accidental operation and has to be flipped up, as seen on the left.

The second photo shows what I’m fairly certain is the lens from an ultra-violet cockpit lamp of the type shown to it’s right. These were an early attempt at introducing fluorescent lighting for instruments (doing away with the radium painted type). The Mosquito seems to have been one of the few aircraft to have used this system which uses mercury vapour discharge lamps to produce the u.v. light. You can sometimes spot these distinctive lamps in Mosquito cockpit photos.

Thanks to 682al for the great work 😉

Can you give the use of this equipment, what kind of switch and lamp ?

Maybe you can also identify the latest items from crash site I have found the last day ?

The last photo show the distribution of parts. 80% of them are (plexi)glass parts.

Regards

Nils

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Thank you Mark that’s really useful info.

Keith

Hi all,

at first, thanks for the postings !
Today I will use the last day to can search more parts on crash site, because the weather here is very rainy and on the crash site grows already colza…

To the last posting of picture one: the dimension is: ca. 16 x lenght, diameter ca. 11cm, smal diameter ca. 35mm. partnumber: R98023A

Nils

PS – Isn’t the first part pictured one of the exhaust stubs?

No, its a cooling duct in the engine bay, i think for the compressors.

Bruce

To Mark:

I have wrote a mail to Norman Malayley, but the mail came back, because his mail address was not found…

Do you have an another mail address ?

Hi Nils:

The address is actually a bulletin board, where Norman posts relatively often. If you just click on the link, it should open up into the Mosquito Forum page, where you can start a new topic. Norman should see it there.

If that doesn’t work for you, email me, markhuxAThotmail.com (replace AT with @) and I’ll see if I can find another route for you.

Cheers,

Mark

PS – Isn’t the first part pictured one of the exhaust stubs?

Hi Tripehound:

Air Britain says there was a Mosquito of 1 OADU (Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit I believe, perhaps another forumite can confirm) which “Crashed in sea off Isles of Scilly 21.1.45”. That seems to fit with your inherited information.

It was an NF.XIX, registration TA439. A number of the NF.XIXs in its series seem to have gone to 255 and 600 Squadrons, which I believe were in the Mediterranean at that point. Perhaps that’s where your relation was heading when the aircraft crashed.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi

I’m new to this forum, and came to this thread as I am researching the loss of my relation Ralph Taverham Ware, who according to information I’ve inherited was lost on 21.1.45 when his ‘Mosquito aircraft failed to reach destination’.

The cwgc confirms the date, but I can find no details of the a/c, which I’d like to model as a tribute.

I see he hasn’t been mentioned above, but wonder if there may be a connection?

Part #12 is identified, source: http://www.mossie.org/images/Phil_Broad/RS712_int/IRS712-30.jpg

To Mark:

I have wrote a mail to Norman Malayley, but the mail came back, because his mail address was not found…

Do you have an another mail address ?

and the last; small part of felt?

Thanks for the link 🙂

Here now the rest of intersting parts from crash site:

Regards
Nils

Hi again – sorry, should have mentioned that you’ll also likely find Juergen Haus over there. Some of the information I posted is actually from him – he may have the Missing Air Crew Report.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Nils:

No worries – you can generally find Norman over at:

http://www.mossie.org/forum/list.php?f=1

However, I believe he was in the process of moving recently – not sure if he has internet access at the moment. You may have to try a couple of times.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Mark,

this is very interesting what you have wrote !
I thing we solved the mystery, because the aircraft came down in Emkendorf !
The copy of Kriegstagebuch show no notice about Mustangs during this time. It was only reported about a Bf 109 who have following and firing the Mossie…

I hope to can make a contact to the family of Jerry M. Roberts to send my result of research.
Do you have a mail of Norman Malayney ?

Thanks for the great information !

Regards

Nils