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Thanks all for the compliments. August 1940 to me seems plauseble.
Just my two cents here: Them "stripes" on engine cowlings and fuselage sides suggest to me there was very hot weather when this happened, i.e. lots of evaporation, and August 1940 was hot (!?!) - and another thing: A normal belly landing usually was about 20%, at least when Ju 88´s were involved. Now suppose, if first report of an Do 17 belly landing on a beach be estimated at 20%, but the info it had been shot up before, did not reach the decision makers (requesting a replacement - untill later) besides it becoming flooded with saltwater and properly ballasted with sand - then probably the amend to 100% never reaching the hardworked GQM clerks. -ed