>I am finding this saga most interesting! Can anyone put a date to the incident?
February 8, 1945.
> And what unit did the He111 come from?
Luftwaffe researchers could guess.
According Soviet side descriptions Heinkel (He 111H-22???) belonged to some Kdo. attached to Penemunde testing centre. In some publications commander of this detachment named as Oblt. Carl-Heinz Graudenz (???).
> Was it really carrying two V-1s when stolen?
It seems yes. At least something wich looked like.
Try an online-translators:
http://www.airpages.ru/cgi-bin/pg.pl...&page=devataev
http://www.rednews.ru/article.phtml?...y=111=1&id=120
http://star-v.narod.ru/heroes/article1.htm
http://otvaga.vif2.ru/Otvaga/heroes/hero_030.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/history/aces/ac...devyataev.html
http://skydive1.h12.ru/aviation/su.p...00001031.shtml