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Re: Fw 200 " F8+BW"
Apparently just buying Fw 200 photos in the dozen on Ebay as abbtav doesn't provide for serious research on the subject. Off course, Hptm. Edmund Daser never flew F8+BW on any mission and schnellmeyer might have been trapped by false information on Internet.
The photos to which Revi16 has kindly hinted, originate from Bundesarchiv files and llustrate the usual training with the veteran Condor employed as F8+BW, once the training of Fw 200 crews had been relegated solely to 12./KG 40 at Orleans-Bricy.
Earlier, this aircraft was used by 11./KG 40 with Vkz. F8+BV, so as seen on the group photo purchased by schellmeyer on Ebay. It shows the ground staff of this unit, with the CO Hptm. Willers posing in the middle on a motorcycle, on the occasion of his departure from 11./KG 40 for taking over command of KGrzbV 200 in December 1942.
The aircraft photographed as F8+BV and F8+BW with 11. and 12./KG 40, was in fact Fw 200 C-2 W.Nr. 0016, Stkz. NA+WI, which was taken over by 1./KG 40 on 10 July 1940, only then used occasionally by Hptm. Daser before transferred to 3./KG 40 in 1941 until it was relegated to Fw 200 crew training with IV./KG 40. The aircraft became a total loss on 21 May 1944 when strafed by USAAF fighters while under maintenance with the Lufthansa workshops at Leipzig-Schkeuditz airfield.
It shows again that photos have their stories, but often different ones than assumed.
Günther Ott
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