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Re: Short colour video clip of crashed HE111 1H+EN being recovered wW@
9 February 1940 5./KG26 Heinkel He111H-3 (6853). Both engines damaged in attack by S/L A. D. Farquhar of No.602 Squadron during attack on the trawler Strathella south-east of May Island and tipped-up on landing at North Berwick Law 12.00 p.m. BF Uffz Franz Wieners badly wounded in left thigh - died same day in RAF Drem station hospital, FF Uffz Helmut Meyer, BO Uffz Josef Sangl, and BM Obergefr Heinz Hegemann captured unhurt. Aircraft 1H+EN 100% write-off.
This aircraft was made airworthy and impressed into service with No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight bearing RAF serial AW177. It crashed at Polebrook on November 10, 1943, killing seven of the eleven on board.
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