Oblt. Arnim Faber’s Fw190A-3 was indeed the first intact Fw190 to fall into British hands at RAF Penbury on 23rd June 1942. This example later became MP499. The West Malling Fw190 landed in error on 17th April 1943 and belonged to Feldwebel.Otto Bechtold of II./SKG10. This example received the RAF serial PE822…
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For WNr.5331 we have:
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Would you have anything listed to help to pinpoint the above details? (obviously in your own time)
Sorry Brad… I don’t have any new suggestions since your previous thread here
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just see a FW 190 crashed in Staplehurst Kent again no year or Werk number.
Fw190A-5 – WNr.0152697 – SJ+FT – 2./SKG10 – 100% loss, Henhurst Farm, Staplehurst, Kent, England on 16-Apr-43 after a combat mission. Emergency landing in UK after becoming lost. Oblt.K.-Hans Klahn, Staffelkapitän killed. [Source: Gen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #9)-Vol.16; The Blitz, Then & Now, p.247 txt]
I have around 74 Fw190 losses recorded in the UK…
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Cheers Michael… there was also an old thread on this forum too:
Knew I’d seen this Bf109 before… some more footage linked below which was posted on the LEMB back in Sept’12 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTkatOz_mC0&list=FLASS3TOMGAhsxLuygjc2F8g&index=1&feature=plpp_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcvNiTby_A&list=FLASS3TOMGAhsxLuygjc2F8g&index=2&feature=plpp_video
Thanks Daz… do we know if this is Bf109G-6 WNr.440738 seen here?
Strange fixed undercarriage & low wing type with a growly radial heading in a westerly direction across Caterham/Chaldon…
Popular piece of film 😉
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?124425 – Spitfire pilot sees WW2 film of his belly landing
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?124504 – Spitfire 944
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?124976 – Spitfire Recon at Mt Farm …WW II home movie ..great story !
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?126928 – Nice little Spitfire film
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?126993 – Interesting WW2 footage, including Spitfire wheels up landing
Just a wild guess… but if 0533 was the WNr, it *could* have belonged to:
Perhaps the 26th August 1976 was the date it was recovered from a crash site?
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But then again… perhaps ;):dev2:
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Source: “The Luftwaffe from Training School to the Front” by Carlsen & Stipdonk [Schiffer, 1996]
But was one used by Goering?
Not that I’m aware Jim… I think, when the seller says “Goering’s Gladiator” he actually just means “Luftwaffe Gladiator”
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Its a Gladiator my dear Jim… 🙂
Yes, the Luftwaffe did use around 13 ex-Latvian Gladiators, with some being used by Ergänzungsgruppe (S) 1 at Langendiebach near Hanau. Photos survive of Gladiator Mk I, WNr.45829 coded NJ+BO… but as for its association with Goring, well, that’s another thing… unless the title merely means something along the lines of the “Luftwaffe’s Gladiator”
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From memory, KG53 lost a He 111 at Bawtry that night or thereabouts?
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I have no record of any German losses in Nottinghamshire for that timeframe, so, my questions are – Where did this aircraft come down, if indeed it did crash? What type of aircraft was it, and what was its unit?
Could be this loss Don:
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