I watched a film a while ago, Enemy at the gates?, and it featured a very badly modeled 111 in the ruins of Stalingrad.
I thought at the time it was just set dressing. Since then I’ve seen another film, and also a computer game that both featured a 111 in the ruins of Stalingrad.
So what’s the story of the `Stalingrad 111` ?
BTW I’ve googled it without any success.
By: j_jza80 - 18th July 2015 at 19:03
Given the scale and intensity of that battle, I would expect there to have been several Luftwaffe wrecks in the ruins.
By: Atcham Tower - 18th July 2015 at 18:58
A photo exists of a crash-landed Me 109 in the ruins of Stalingrad so perhaps that was the inspiration. The recent Russian film about Stalingrad has a half or 3/4 scale He 111 wreck.
By: Wings43 - 18th July 2015 at 18:29
Is it portraying a real aircraft? I would have thought they just wanted a ‘downed’ aircraft and decided up a 111.
By: hampden98 - 18th July 2015 at 18:22
No, I mean the real 111 that `that` aircraft was portraying.
By: j_jza80 - 18th July 2015 at 18:14
http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Enemy_at_the_Gates
Siebel Si 204 is a medium transport with a similar shape to the Heinkel He 111; a derelic airframe could be used to simulate the bomber (in fact, the Siebel has a twin tail, here changed to a single one as like as the Heinkel He 111).
After 1945, France and Czechoslovakia built it for their own air forces (respectively 240 and 180 airframes); it’s probably one of them which was used for the movie.
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July 18, 2015 at 5:37 pm