[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

I'm gathering info for the KG 2 Profiles for the EOE Project. We know three examples of this insignia including

1) May-June, 1940: Stab KG2 Do17Z U5+?A, apparently forced down during the WC: have good nose-to-tail photo of this a/c FL, but with unreadable a/c letter and 1939-style fuselage insignia. Stabstaffel insignia is present, but is slightly out of focus although reasonably clear at a distance.

2) August 13, 1940: Stab KG2 Dornier Do17Z. Shot down by Hurricanes during attack on Eastchurch airfield and crashed on the railway at Pherbec Bridge, Barham, 8.30 a.m. Possibly that claimed by P/O J.A. Walker of No.111 Squadron. BO Oberlt Gerhard Oszwald (Staffelkapitän), BF Obergefr Gustav Babbe and BM Obergefr Ernst Holz all captured wounded, FF Oberlt Heinz Schlegel captured unhurt. Aircraft U5+KA 100% write-off.
Officer’s forage cap and Luftwaffe gravity knife confiscated from crew of this aircraft, donated to the Kent Battle of Britain Museum and now in the Hawkinge Aeronautical Trust collection.

The four known B&W photos of this crash in the EOE photo data base do not show the insignia, but Peter Cornwell informs me that this can be seen in a wartime Pathé film clip of the crash that he has seen. Does anyone have a copy of this newsreel clip from which the image of this insignia can be extracted?

3) August 23, 1940: Stabsstaffel KG2 Dornier Do17Z. Port engine damaged by AA fire during sortie to Coventry. Dumped bombs and belly-landed at Spring Wood, Lodge Farm, Wickhambrook, south-west of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 9.20 a.m. BO Oberlt Heinrich Hellmers (Staffelkapitän), FF Oberfw Günter Wagner, BF Fw Albert Dietl, and BM Uffz Paul Seidel all captured unhurt. Aircraft U5+EA 100% write-off.

The insignia on these three a/c shows a figure with a telescope to his eye falling from clouds astride a bomb. I think that this is similar to the image shown as a possible 4./KG2 insignia in Ketley & Rolfe #275. This shows the figure as a "Turk" with red pantaloons and fez, but Peter C. thinks the figure is more like "a (Baron) Munchhausen-type figure perched on a falling bomb..."

I'll attach a close up image of this insignia on U5+EA, although not very clear and sharp.

So, besides locating an image from the newsreel, does anyone have a source for any other images of this insignia, especially that shows more detail? We need to document this correctly for the profiles that we're working on.

Regards,