Who shot down Franz Von Werra?

Aces High

Hello Chaps, thank you very much for your answers.

You can read this in the famous book Aces High ShoresWilliams

Basil Stapleton
Score: Do17, Bf109E (3/9/40),Do17 15/9/40, Bf109E (30/9/40)Bf109E (15/10/40)Bf109E (11/11/40)shared Ju88 (3/7/40) Do17 (20/7/40)probable 2 Bf109E (29/8/40) Bf109E (31/8/40) Bf109E (3/9/40)Bf110 (11/9/40)Bf109E (17/9/40) Bf109E (17/10/40) Bf109E (20/10/40)damaged Bf109E (11/9/40) Bf109E (15/9/40)
Source – Aces High Williams/Shores

As you notice there is no victory on 09/05/1940
I know that some books has mistakes I found many errors in Math books 😉

My last question is:
In which aircraft P/O Stapleton shot down Von Werra…
He flew during Battle of Britain this ones…
Aircraft: Spitfires L1024, L1040, L1020, R6626, N3196, X4348, P9553,P7324, P7528

Best Regards

Wikipedia states that von Werra lived until 1941 – where he disappeared on a routine patrol, possibly down to engine failure.

Franz Von Werra

That’s certainly the story I’d read about him previously.

Von Werra

[The Battle of Britain. net seems to leave a lot to be desired in correct details — for example it states SATURDAY 31st AUGUST — this was in fact a FRIDAY— how do I know — well I was there — when at about 4.30pm I saw Hurricane P3119 –( P/Off JLW Ellecombe ) after it crashed landed near my home — I saw Hurricane R4213 go down in flames, killing Sgt.Feliks Gmur,— I saw a He111 which they shot down, & landed a couple of miles from my home, — it was one of 10 en-route to attack Vauxhall Motors at Luton, where vast damage ensued, along with many casualties in that area.
Official records name Flt/Lt John Terrance aged 24. of 41Sqdn Hornchurch in Spitfire P9428 who shot-down Von Werra at 10am on 5th Sept. 1940 — crash-landing at Winchet Hill Loves farm, Marden Kent — Terrance was killed a few hours later that day,( 3.25pm ) after colliding in mid-air with Spitfire R6635 flown by Sqdn/Ldr. H R L Hood aged 32 yrs, over Bonvills farm Benfleet Essex.
Von Werra lived a further 4 yrs before perishing in Oct. 1944

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OOOHHHH Buggger ME!

G’ day all again 😉 .

Guess what I got up and watched just last NIGHT :eek:(morning started at 1.25 Am).

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY!!!!:D

AGAIN FOR MAYBE THE 30th Time now I reckon :rolleyes:

ABC Channel 2, and I did the Telemark Heroe’s again last week I think it was 😎

My Favorite part’s when Hardy’s trying to knock off our fav still flyin now Hurra 363.

I stayed up just for that part :rolleyes: .

It give’s me flashe’s of when Bader was sitting in the 109 in France, thinking about the same thing as Franz.

He too had a pistol pointing at him, a Luger I think, but he didn’t know about it till Mr First and Last Dolf sent him the picture till after the War 😮 .

Doug was just so rapt just to sit in the 109, that he had know idea about the pistol 😀 .

Now did anyone shoot Franz down the second time when he died, or did he just crash in to the Sea, or do we just do not know what happened to the dude, H’mmm maybe the fog of war :confused: .

Ok Oooo Roooo

Bulla Bulla

CROC’S RULE!!!! :dev2:

Which reminds me, I’ve not seen the film The One That Got Away for ages!!

The von Werra shoot-down is covered in David Ross’s book “Stapme” – which is sadly roosting in my loft at present! :rolleyes:

The Wickipedia reference you mention quotes Stapleton himself describing the action in which von Werra was shot down on 5th September – seems fairly conclusive?:

“…….During my dive from altitude I spotted a Spitfire at about 6,000′ diving vertically, half inverted, towards the ground, it’s tail shot away. I then spotted a lone 109 in the same airspace as an RAF pilot descending by parachute. I latched onto the German and pursued him at low-level over the Kent countryside. As I fired short bursts he attempted to shake me off but I could see my tracer striking his aircraft and I closed in. I remember at one stage being concerned that there was a village in my line of fire. He had nowhere to go but down and eventually force-landed in a field. I flew low over the site. The German was soon apprehended, initially by the unarmed cook from the local searchlight battery!”

‘The Bf109 of Oberlt Franz von Werra Gruppe Adjutant of Staab II/JG3 was shot down over Marden in Kent by P/O B.G.Stapleton of 603 Squadron Hornchurch, although it is believed that the Bf109 sustained original damage after being hit by gunfire from the Spitfire of P/O G.H.Bennions of 41 Squadron Hornchurch.’
http://www.battleofbritain.net/0035.html

Martin