[Larry Hickey]

Remi,

Thanx for posting the photo of the port side of "Red 9." That will help us get the positioning of the "Red 9," correct if we do a color profile of this a/c.

Your info on Hesselbach is most helpful, and will require us to modify our loss entry when Peter C. recovers from a temporary indisposition. He'll probably jump in here when he gets back on track. Now I'm wondering it the info on "Red 9" for the 2./JGr152 aircraft isn't somehow confused with the 28 September loss of "Red 9" from 2./JG51, which was captured intact and tested. If Hesselbach bailed out, it seems probable that there would be little left from which to determine the a/c number as "Red 9," unless this came from interrogation of the pilot.

Remi, I know that you've been researching these losses for many years. Is it possible that you've run across photos of other crashes, including badly smashed a/c, from French sources for the Phoney War period, that would help us document the wrecks (both German and Allied). Obviously we already have copies of the photos published in the "The Battle of France Then and Now," since Peter wrote it, but we're looking for photos of the many other planes that came down during the Phoney War, including ones that were no more than scattered wreckage, or smoking holes in the ground.

I hope that you can provide further help. Have you ever located photos of "Yellow 12" of 3./JGr152 that came down on Sept. 24th, or any of the other German crashes that day? Have you ever discovered photos of any of the Fairey Battles that fell on French soil on Sept 30th?

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE project Coordinator