The guy in the swimsuit looked excited to see it!!!
German Claims that Night
Source: Tony Woods Luftwaffe Claims Lists..
Night: 29-30. May 1943
R.A.F. Bomber Command: WUPPERTAL
30.05.43 Oblt. Ludwig Meister 1./NJG 4 Stirling 3 km. S.W. Castelnau: 3.100 m. 02.07 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.20
30.05.43 Oblt. Rudolf Altendorf 2./NJG 4 Wellington 8 km. südl. Namur: 3.400 m. 02.20 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.31
30.05.43 Ltn. Rolf Bussmann 1./NJG 1 Halifax 3157: 3.700 m. 02.50 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.61
30.05.43 Oblt. Rudolf Altendorf 2./NJG 4 Halifax Ressaix: 4.300 m. 02.57 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.32
30.05.43 Ltn. Schmidt 2./NJG 1 Halifax 4265: 5.200 m. 00.07 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.32
30.05.43 Ltn. Beier 3./NJG 1 Halifax 5288: 5.000 m. 00.24 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.161
30.05.43 Oblt. Wilhelm Telge Stab II./NJG 1 Halifax 52/7/5: 5.700 m. Fld.Nr. 200 00.28 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.76
30.05.43 Fw. Oloff 2./NJG 1 Wellington 4218: 2.000 m. 00.29 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.133
30.05.43 Oblt. Manfred Meurer 3./NJG 1 Halifax 6271: 6.200 m. 00.33 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.162
30.05.43 Maj. Walter Ehle Stab II./NJG 1 Halifax 6132: 5.600 m. 00.37 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.77
30.05.43 Oblt. Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin 6./NJG 1 Wellington 5125: 5.400 m. 00.43 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.79
30.05.43 Ltn. Heinz Schnaufer Stab II./NJG 1 Stirling 6134: 3.500 m. 00.48 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.78
30.05.43 Oblt. Manfred Meurer 3./NJG 1 Wellington 6207: 5.400 m. 00.50 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.163
30.05.43 Maj. Walter Ehle Stab II./NJG 1 Halifax 6113: 4.200 m. 01.05 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.79
30.05.43 Oblt. Manfred Meurer 3./NJG 1 Stirling 5283: 2.500 m. 01.09 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.164
30.05.43 Hptm. Hoffmann 5./NJG 1 Halifax 6134: 4.500 m. 01.40 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.40
30.05.43 Ltn. Heinz Schnaufer Stab II./NJG 1 Halifax 5114: 6.500 m. 01.43 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.80
30.05.43 Oblt. Manfred Meurer 3./NJG 1 Lancaster 6 km. S.E. Venray: 4.300 m. 01.44 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.165
30.05.43 Ofw. Fritz Schellwat 5./NJG 1 Lancaster 5276: 2 km. N.E. Hachtal: 4.280 m. 02.18 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.41
30.05.43 Ltn. Heinz Schnaufer Stab II./NJG 1 Stirling ½ km. E. Fl.Pl. Diest-Schaffen: 4.500 m. 02.22 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.81
30.05.43 Ltn. Johannes Hager 4./NJG 1 Stirling 6117 2 km. N.E. Braud: 4.400 m. 02.28 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.22
30.05.43 Ofw. Fritz Schellwat 5./NJG 1 Lancaster 5276 500 m. südl. Peer: 5.100 m. 02.37 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr.42
Supplemental Claims from Sources:
30.05.43 Oblt. Heinz Wurm Jagdkdo West Liberator 15 West/9076 20.54 Reference: AA MSS f. 4
30.05.43 Ofw. Vincenz Giessuebel 14./KG 40 Liberator 120 km. N.W. Brest – Reference: CG MSS f. 209
Gnome
Below are a couple of links that I have found particularly useful in recent months
DAVID WILLIAM ERICKSON, KIA 30.5.43, 44 Sqn
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2777444
Then see:
http://www.cavillconnections.co.uk/44%20losses%20E.htm
29/30.05.43 Lancaster I W4838 KM-B
She is Yellow 16
See the following link for a better picture
The interwebnetwww thing is great
We now now its Stkz was RC + TY
Ben
Thanks
Now found it at http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/lists/luftwaffe10.htm
15-12-1943 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-2 Jagdstaffel ?./IV./JG 5 unk ?N WNr. 0125 425 unk Accident bad weather 100% Pilot unk – Dit/s unknown area (Pl.Qu.06/Ost/4163)
Does anyone know the werknummer and pilot of this aircraft.. It looks like it was ‘Black 6’ and the newspapers quote it as a FW190 A2 and the newpaper article mentions Staffel 12.. However, what I do think is that it is a IV./JG 5 machine.
But maybe Staffel 11
From: http://www.ww2.dk/air/jagd/jg5.htm
” 10./JG5 at Trondheim-Lade (6.42 – 2.44); 11./JG5 at Alta (26.6.42 – 6.7.52), Elvenes (6.7.42 – 27.7.42), Bodö (27.7.42 – 9.42) and Trondheim-Lade (9.42 – 2.44); 12./JG5 at Aalborg (26.6.42 – 8.42), Oerlandet (8.42 – 12.42) and Bodö (12.42 – ?); In 6.43 11./JG5 was based at Stavanger and 11./JG5 at Herdla. In 10.43 10./JG5 moved to Gossen and 11./JG5 to Herdla”
In that pose she looks like a model diorama!
The Chinese seller is just relisting items on sale elsewhere on ebay.. I wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole…
From The Lockheed Twins by Peter J Marson. Published by Air Britain
N7206 – c/n B142-1602 Mark 1, delivered to Air Ministry for RAF 14th Feb 1939, then: A&AEE, 1 OTU, 6 OTU. Hit wires low flying Gainford Co Durham, 1st May 1942 – So match for above
T9274 – c/ 214-2309 Mark 1 , delivered to Air Ministry for RAF 4th April 1940, tehn 2067 Sqn, 220 Sqn, 6OTU – Ditched after engine failure 14 miles NE Hartlepool, 6th May 1942
Ask on RAF Commands
Mark
RS714 B35 Sold 18.8.55 to CF-IME Broken up Hurn .60
VP200 B35 Sold 18.8.55 CF-IMB Broken up Hurn .60
from http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/production.htm
Paul
pS> I do not believe the story about the attempted recovery in 1970’s…. As we have an eye witness in 1986! and the photo on the website looks more recent than 1970!
However, it MAY have been the victim of an attempted recovery since 1986!
Also see
http://www.adf-serials.com/2a29-E.shtml
for a history of this aircraft
Sounds very much like the P-40 which is pictured in ‘Epics of Aviation Archaeology’
Well done that man!.. Epics of Aviation Archaelogy Page 108. Same picture that Mark12 posted. Bruce Adams wrote the chapter on war-wrecks of the South-West Pacific
Says it is a P-40 Kittyhawk
Mark12… PS. Check your email :rolleyes: