Hello,
I'm seeking a date, full code and possible pilot/crew for this a/c, which did a nose-stand at Stavanger-Sola perhaps around mid-April, 1940.
The photos suggest that this may be 4D+AL of 3./KG30, which might well be the a/c of Hptm Arved Crüger Sta Kap, although he was not necessarily the pilot that day. Crüger may also not have normally flown the "A" aircraft in the Staffel. He was a Knight's Cross winner, and only the second member of KG30 to receive that award.
Detachments from 3 Staffel were operating from Sola during mid-April. Besides these three photos, which confirm the code 4D+A?, does anyone know of any other images of his incident that might confirm the 4th letter of the code, or have information that would allow a date to be put to this incident?
If this is 4D+AL, a previous aircraft with this code FL on an island off the coast of Denmark on 16.03.40, and was burned; the crew was interned. It was piloted by Uffz Siegfried Werner Matner, not Crüger. The Ju88A in these photos may have been the replacement for that a/c.
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-83J...-83JK7bC-M.jpg
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-N8Q...-N8Qzf2X-L.jpg
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-42G...-42Gk3vH-L.jpg
The first photo posted comes from this source:
http://www.fotonettverk-rogaland.no/...Forus-og-Sola/
The other two are eBay auction images. If anyone can provide original prints of any of these, it would be greatly apprecuated,
Any help would be appreciated.