Gentlemen, thank you all for excellent and informative contributions. I am pressed for time, so two brief comments follow below:
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Originally Posted by BrianC
There was a recent Forum post regarding Dietrich Weyergang, who was killed flying LN+ER. The remains of his aircraft has recently been discovered and shows 11 kill markings.
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Brian, there appears to be a Russian website dedicated to LN+ER, with images of the crashed aircraft - "Located 12 kilometres north of the town of Zaozersk in Murmansk oblast. Lifted out by helicopter in 1991 and appeared in England in 1992. Now possibly located in the Berlin Technik Museum."
https://ln-er.ru/
This is contradicted by the information below:
"BF110F-2 Werknummer 5052 served as LN+NR with 13./Zerstörergruppe JG 5 in Finland during 1943. On January 11, it was damaged by Flak flying a mission against railway lines between Murmansk and Leningrad. Pilot Helmut Ziegenhagen successfully executed a forced landing on a frozen lake, with all crew picked up by friendly forces the next day.
The comparably well-preserved wreck was salvaged in 1991 and shipped to the UK. In 1997, it was acquired by Deutsches Technikmuseum together with another wreck marked M8+ZE, which provided parts to the restoration."
http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages...eum/26126.html
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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng
Andy -
Maybe this might help?
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Larry, you and Doug wrote in your book series that "
Staffel disbanded (early February 1943)." So we can assume that there is no mention of this unit after the surrender at Stalingrad?
Warm regards,
Dan