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June 22, 2013 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Spotted 2013 #952365

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Thanks David… even with it being an early summers evening, it was nigh on impossible to make out her markings against a slate grey sky and with the wind blowing a gale…but it certainly had what appeared to have a late-MK silhouette, so perhaps it was PS915?

June 22, 2013 at 7:05 pm in reply to: Spotted 2013 #952399

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Spitfire performing a couple of low circuits over Kenley as I type…

June 18, 2013 at 10:27 pm in reply to: What happens with Goldenyears.ukf.net site ? #956110

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Tis back again 🙂

http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/home.html

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Pete

June 17, 2013 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Junkers JU-52 found in Greece #957627

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Not discussing the cost of fuel, these two old threads cover the same recovery:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?16281
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?16466

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Pete

June 17, 2013 at 1:45 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #957993

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Check out the thread & post below Clint:

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11342&p=60551

Pete

June 9, 2013 at 8:19 pm in reply to: JU88A-14 144537. 4/KG6 colours #967349

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🙂 No worries… I see from the loss details I have access to that this example was a 100% loss after crashing into Hare Hill, Balerno, near Edinburgh, on 24-Mar-43. So depending on how much of the Ju88 was left, there may be an intelligence report which includes the details your looking for. Perhaps somebody here has access to the report in question…

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Pete

June 9, 2013 at 2:52 pm in reply to: JU88A-14 144537. 4/KG6 colours #967655

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From the coded worn by this Ju88A-14:

H = aircraft letter which would have either been white, outlined in white or just plain black
M = 4th Staffel, II Gruppe

Propeller spinners could have been white too…

Pete

June 2, 2013 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #975124

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After reading some of the ridiculous nonsense posted here, the very best of luck to all involved… and for UK residents, the link below will take you to the BBC News 24 live stream:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_news24/watchlive

Cheers
Pete

June 2, 2013 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Luftwaffe Recon Flights over UK #975127

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Two good primers on the subject:

“Aufklarer: Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft and Units – Volume 1, 1935-1941” by D.Wadman – ISBN 978-1857802689 [Midland, 2007]
“Aufklarer: Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft and Units – Volume 2, 1942-1945” by D.Wadman – ISBN 978-1857802788 [Midland, 2007]

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Pete

May 15, 2013 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Mystery German bomber 8/9 May 1942. #991646

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🙂 Many thanks Eric… BTW, I wasn’t questioning your source I was just intrigued to learn where it was taken and what evidence there was that WNr.5367 crashed in/off Holland. For additional interest, here is the same loss as it appear on the Luftwaffe Gen.Qu.6.Abt loss lists for Luftflotte 3, dated 11.05.42:

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/do217loss.jpg

Note that there is no mention of Norwich… but having said that, the other Do217 loss discussed above (WNr.5375) has no location logged against it either…

Cheers
Pete

May 15, 2013 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Mystery German bomber 8/9 May 1942. #992131

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🙂 My pleasure Richard… I haven’t looked at my electronic scans of the Luftwaffe Gen.Qu.6.Abt loss records to see if they match Balke’s entry, but the anomaly with Eric’s records showing the same loss in Holland is interesting. Perhaps he can share the source so that it too so it can be investigated further. The fact that you appear to have an eye witness to this mysterious second loss would seem to point to the Luftwaffe loss records being correct. I do find it strange that very little appears in the British records though…

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Pete

May 14, 2013 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Mystery German bomber 8/9 May 1942. #992986
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Hi Eric… I’ve just pulled my copy of “Der Luftkrieg in Europa, Teil 2” by U.Balke [Bernard & Graefe, 1990] off my library shelf and the author does indeed have this loss listed as WNr.5367 with the loss location simply recorded just as Norwich. He also has the complete crew listed for U5+CT as:
- FF Oblt.Hermann Obermeier, BO Fw.Albert Fesser, BF Uffz.Paul Rieger & BM Uffz.Heinz Epskamp
Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time that the Luftwaffe Gen.Qu.6.Abt loss records might have recorded the loss location incorrectly…

Pete
May 14, 2013 at 8:11 pm in reply to: The last surviving Dornier #992997

Peter D Evans
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..but we have different Wk Nr and different location. 🙂

WNr yes… locations… no 😉

May 14, 2013 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Mystery German bomber 8/9 May 1942. #993118
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I have access to a loss database which shows that as well as the Poringland example, we also have a second Do217 loss for 9th May 1942:
- Do217E-4 – WNr.5367 – coded U5+CT of 9./KG2 – 100% loss, England on 09-May-42. Lost, cause unknown. Oblt.Hermann Obermeier MIA, 1 other MIA, 2 KIA [sources: Gen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #6)-Vol.9 & Balke, Der Luftkrieg in Europa, p.431]
Not much, but perhaps a lead?

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Pete
May 14, 2013 at 6:13 pm in reply to: The last surviving Dornier #993124

Peter D Evans
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Great minds… and all that Mark 😉

Pete
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