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Old 7th December 2013, 12:01
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Re: Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584911

Thanks Steve. I was mislead by a seemingly oblique streak of yellow paint, which upper part can be seen behind the Balkenkreuz.

Thanks to Bengt Stangvik and Tormod Christiansen over on "German airplanes from the second world war" Facebook page, some new knowledge has arisen.

Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584 911 was one of the four Fw 190 A-9 and F-8 which actually crash landed quite close together at Řstre Krok, Rřdenes, on 5 May 1945. A four plane formation is known to have started from Leck that day, then landed for refueling at Veilje/Grove before heading towards Kristiansand. Owing to the bad weather, two of the planes had no choice but to crash land around 8 AM on open farm land at Řstre Krok, Rřdenes:

Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584 935 "Gelbe 7", Oblt. Edgar Mertensohn, 6./JG ?, unit not recorded. (attachment krok-01 and 03)
Fw 190 A-9 W.Nr. 739 525 "Rote 3", Lt. Jan Sepa, 2./JG ?, unit not recorded (attachment krok-01 and 04).

A third Fw 190, piloted by Lt. Kurt Sorge, who started that morning from Sylt, crash landed further north, near Sřndre Soprim farm. Finally, a fourth Fw 190 crash landed in the same area, with no further details known. Thus, Fw 190 W.Nr. 584 911 "Gelbe 1" is with high probability one of the two latter machines. Interestingly, it's camouflage and tactical markings are a close match for Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584 935 "Gelbe 7".

Source for the above is http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/krok.html

As a complement, this site states that all four machines were IV/JG 3 planes: http://www.ju88.net. This is not supported by the tactical markings observed...

Any information update will be appreciated
Marc

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