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Re: Fw 200, KG 40, shot down early 1944

...and if the Leder family want to get in touch, I can share with them what I have

Re: Fw 200, KG 40, shot down early 1944

Thanks Chris, I'll drop your email to Justin (grandson)

cheers

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Thanks Neil he has as you know been in touch and somewhat taken back how much more he now has!

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Chris, just caught up with the messages, thanks for putting me in copy. Quite a story, albeit not unusual I doubt - all three brothers losing their lives (Heer, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe) while the other side of the family were Jewish with the inevitable sad consequences there..

Re: Fw 200, KG 40, shot down early 1944

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Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann (Post 343264)

Dear Gang,

I chanced on this gun camera film over on reddit showing the impressive chase and demise at tree top level of a KG 40 Fw 200, early in 1944:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GunCameraCl...r_taking_fire/

I at first thought this would be Fw 200 C-4/U2 W.Nr. 0139 "F8+HW", 12.(Erg)/KG 40, shot down by 247 Sqn Typhoon at Semerville, 15 km S of Chateaudun, France, 29.01.1944. (FF) Fluglehrer Ofw Karl-Heinz Schwenicke WIA, (F.2) Uffz. Karl Rau KIA, (F.2) Fw. Kurt Miklas KIA, (Bf) Uffz. Erhard Jaensch KIA, (Bm) Ofw. Josef Haas WIA, (Bm) Fw. Karl Sandl WIA, (TP) Ogfr. Benedikt Helmer KIA and (TP) Fw. Johann Nelles WIA. Source: Skutts, Fw200, s.246; TOCH (10.1.2006, Brian Bines, Chris Goss)

After checking the available 247 Sqn gun camera films, they do not match alas:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060036749

There are two other candidates :

- Fw 200 C from 1./KG 40, shot down by 418 Sqn Beaufighters at Vorly-Mangoux, SW of Bourges, 27.01.1944.

- Fw 200C-4 W.Nr. 0170, 8./KG 40, shot down by P-38's at Annoix, along the Crosses - St.Just road, 10 km SW of Bourges-Avord, 05.02.1944.

Thanks in advance for any lead in order to identify this machine.

Hello ,
Back to this thread and refering to Chris book , it seems likely date was 8 march 1944 , two Fw200s were shot down at low level by USAAF P-51 near St Jean d'Angély (4th and 357th FG ) .