HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

There is a photo with destroyed in September 1939, by polish fighter, a Hs 126 with code 5D+MH???

To which unit it belonged?

When it was lost?

mw

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

a scan of it.

mw

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

Hello Mirek,

this a/c belonged to 1.(H)/31. I dont know the date of the crash and I'm still looking for details of the crew, too. Probable crash site is Zwardon.
I hope somebody can add more info.

BR
Gunnar - Bf 110 -

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

Thanks,

in Polish will be Zwardoń

mw

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

This loss is quite strange if concern 1.(H)/31 according infro form photo plane was shot down by Polish fighet, but?

There is not such plane in total losses list done by M. Emmerling?

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

The scan of this second side, plane was shot down by Polish fighter, if I right read it?

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

There isn't written the a/c was shot down by Polish fighters ... it's written "1939 - polnischer Flieger" ("1939 - Polish airplane" -- an misinterpretation).

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH??? A "Polish airman"?
 

Thanks for comments, but:

It can also mean a "Polish airman" the identity of the the perpetrator of the plane crash?

I've done too much shorthand, I thought of the perpetrators of the destruction. Not, this is a "Polish plane" because identity of it is well know for Germans: black crosses + swastica + code

mw

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

Some thoughts about the knowledge of a German uninterested on the sign system of aircrafts: In my collection I have an picture of an Czech Aero MB.200 with Czech roundels and the caption on the backside: "Eine russische Maschine die von den Deutsche festgehalten wurde in Prag." ("an Russian airplane captured by the Germans ..."). I think it was known at this time in Germany they occupied Czech and not Russia. And the Russian sign - the Red star - was well know from the German Communist party ...

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

Hi,

this is a/c was shot down by flak. Both airmen were killed.

Regards

Robert

Re: HS 126 wih 5D+MH???
 

Yes you are right. There are many wrong caption on the other side of photos, I have seen many of them too.

But much more probably would be the world "Polnische Flugzeug" not the "Flieger", this is only assumption? There were several cases when German planes had attacked also own plane (destroyed it), so the recognition was not very strong point among some airman. This cases were among Polish pilots too attacking/destroing own planes. Later in the war no problems, each side had such cases too.

mw