Me-110 RYAF
Hi to all.
Does anybody know something more about Luftwaffe Bf-110 landed by mistake at Kraljevo airfield in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, bu 1st April 1941. Crew (lieutenant Hans Dichter, unteroffizier Wilhelm Pries and mechanic Eugen Schaufele) were interned, but a couple days ago were released. Airplane were seized, photographed and on the 5th April, day before Kingdom of Yugoslavia invaded by Axis, painted in Yugoslav camouflage scheme and markings. In 8th April, Yugoslav crew (pilot captain Zlatko Dimcovic and gunner Gustav Ajdic) flew that plane from Kraljevo to Zemun airfield near Belgrade. From Belgrade airport, Dimcovic alone took off again and landed to auxiliary airstrip Veliki Radinci, some 50 km west of Belgrade. In approach to landing stripe ground crew were opened fire and damaged their hidraulic system so he can't used flaps, so he is too long in landing and dumped his airplane on nose at the end of runaway. Some days later, according to some eyewitness, that plane were burnt by Yugoslavs, but from the same aircraft one famours serbian partisan pick up machine-gun in July 1941!
From interrogation, german crew confirmed that they took off from Wien, and their destination were Turnu Severin in Romania. In that time, on the Turnu Severin situated II/ZG 26. Some sources said that particular plane wore 'Haifisch', but although photographed in Kraljevo, no one of these photos known to exist today.
I'm interesting for the Werke Nummer of this plane if anybody know this.
Kind regards
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