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  • in reply to: turret-glass hit by flak ?? #1395814
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    thanks graham !

    the glass is “plexiglass”, not real glass.
    well, it is poosible that its burned during the fire after the crash, but the art of the hole is strange. will take some other detail pictures…

    in reply to: need help to identify of two a/c – parts #1396259
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    thanks for the details and the help to identify !

    hope I can find more parts of the a/c in the next months…

    its a very nice and perfect team here 🙂

    nils

    in reply to: Part of chassis from Lancaster ?? #1418360
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    Thanks for your posting and your help!

    Here are a lot of numers of some aluminium parts of this a/c:

    …115 50

    1Z293 or. 1Z283, and A31B (in a circle)
    1Z925

    MCLO 7 (in a circle)

    SEL14 (in a circle)

    83D16

    On the cooler-part (bronze): CPB D16986/1

    On a aluminium part of broken pump: 37FCX79541/1

    On a round aluminium cover (fuell-filter?): 39P1888 and: NIM16 (in a circle)

    maybe you can help to identify the type with this numbers?

    Best Regards from Germany !

    Nils

    in reply to: Need info about 2 Halifax of 199 Sqdn. #1422695
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    Thanks for your list Colin !

    Thats what I am looking for !

    Nils

    in reply to: Need Stirling crew list / crashed Kiel / Germany #1436324
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    maybe, the eyewitness have make a mistake about the crash-date… 🙁
    one old women are living, but I cant found her location. I hope to find more details. Another eyewitness tells me, it crashed in the year 44… Its crazy, but it is more than 60 years ago…
    In the summer I will go again to find more parts…

    Thanks for posting !

    Nils

    in reply to: Picture of unknown KIA crew member ! #1347783
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    Thanks for your postings !
    I try to be a member of this group now. maybe it is possible to identify this person !

    The pictures of captured RAF crew members from the website of “the great escape” shows the peoples with civilian clothes too.

    in reply to: Wellington X3716 / 29.04.1942 #1353516
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    Thanks for the list !

    You can find my report on my website now !

    Nils

    in reply to: Stirling crashed on 08.12.1942 near Kiel / Serial? #1354356
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    Hi Archie !

    Many thanks for the details !
    Step for step I can all crashed assigned 🙂

    Thanks !

    in reply to: Looking for SQ of killed crew member #1356681
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    Thanks for your details !

    Now, before I public the result of my research, I will be sure that is the right a/c on the pictures I have.
    My informations are, on this pictures are a crashed Hampden ! Maybe the writer make a mistake??

    Can you recognize on the pictures the type of a/c?

    in reply to: Looking for SQ of killed crew member #1356898
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    My problem is, I have informations about a crashed Hampden on 12./13.3.1942 near Kiel. But their is no Hampden crashed on this date…
    or it is a mistake of myself?

    in reply to: W4767 – Stirling or Lancaster ? #1358273
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    Thanks for the list !

    The report with picture are now on my website !

    Nils

    in reply to: W4767 – Stirling or Lancaster ? #1359125
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    Report of a Newpaper from Kiel:
    “How yesterday reported, was during the fly over the Gaugebiet Schleswig-Holstein through british aircrafts 18 Bomber, partly with four engines, shot down. Once of this shoot down a/c crashed, from the defence hit, in the urban area, torn up a roof of a Church and smashed of a place in thousand parts. From the crew found four men the dead.”

    in reply to: W4767 – Stirling or Lancaster ? #1359251
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    Thanks for informations !
    I have a picture from a crashed a/c in the near of a church in Kiel. Will look if it from this date…
    Have a list of three found killed crewmember on this date. do you have a member list of this a/c from 61 sqdn.?

    Nils

    in reply to: LancasterIII crashed near Kiel #1369557
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    thanks for your details !

    I hope to can find more about all the crashed a/c in the area of Kiel.
    Wish you a merry xmas !

    greetings from rainy and stormy, snowless Kiel

    nils

    in reply to: Big list of crashed a/c near Kiel / Germany. Need details ! #1371708
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    Hi guys, here I am again !

    after Flood has posted the big list of a/c, I compared his data with my list of crashes.
    The problem now; I need the list of their crews…

    In my list of the Kiel War Cemetary from 1939 to 1945 are all dates to find. but not all names of killed crewmembers was know. Important for me is who was killed and who was pow !?

    Before I updated my website, I need the names. Maybe Flood can help again, or someone else…

    Here the list now:

    28.06.40: 61.sqdn. L4112 / Hampden, crashlocation and crew unknown

    26.09.40: P2090, Hampden, sqdn.?, crashlocation and crew unknown

    12.06.41: 61.sqdn. AD 727 / Hampden , crashlocation and crew unknown

    07.09.41: 49.sqdn. AD236 / Hampden ,crashlocation and crew unknown

    08.09.41: 35.sqdn. unknown type of a/c and location (4 KIA), crashlocation and crew unknown

    31.10.41: 77.sqdn. Z6950 / Whitley, crashlocation and crew unknown

    11.09.41: R1038 / Wellington, sqdn.? crashlocation and crew unknown
    11.09.41: X9879 / Wellington, sqdn.? crashlocation and crew unknown

    12.09.41: 149.sqdn. crashlocation and crew unknown

    26.02.42: 12.sqdn. W5440, Wellington, crashlocation and crew unknown

    29.03.42: 75.sqdn. X3462 / Wellington, unknown crashlocation
    29.03.42:82.sqdn. crewmember: Woodbridge, type of a/ ,crashlocation and crew unknown
    29.03.42:83sqdn. R5781 / Manchaster, crashlocation and crew unknown

    Thanks for help !

    Nils

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