[FRANCESCO M LENTINI]

Hello Ed,

thanks for your words; I am aware that's like a giant puzzle and we must put in the right place the pieces. Castelvetrano was a major airfield only ten km away north and Cape Granitola-Selinunte route often was the landing approach route for the ghost Sciacca airfield. From Castelvetrano and the several airfields near Trapani starded the bombardaments to Malta and allied ships across the channel and finally Castelvetrano was one of the most important place for resupply the Tunisian campaign (my father remembered very well the six engine Me 323). Also NJG 2 sometimes was there (see wonderfull pics of H.Rokker's JU 88 C in Luftwaffe im Focus n13 pag. 10)
I can add that my uncle (88 years old) this summer told me that he sow well the airplane under the sea few time after the crash and that all happened during the beginning of the grap harvest one or two years before the Sicily invasion.
At the end of July the major of Castelvetrano with the harbour office went over the wrecks and declared that will be a good idea to preserve (how under the sea in so few meters of water? It's not the like the JU 88 off Galatina) the plane for an hot spot for divers and tourists. After the silence.
I'm not expert about KG or Aufklarer units but only JG but I'm beginning to search about units like KG 54, KG 76, 77, KGRUPPE 806 etc and the loss lists.
Friends of mine are ready to go there also in the winter season to check if the plane is always over the seabed and eventally take also other pics (I left them my sub camera) if the sea condition will be good = clear water.

I will be in Selinunte again in mid December.

I'm afraid that in the winter some big storm can covered again the bird and I don't want wait other 30 years......

Francesco M Lentini