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Originally Posted by Choco1961
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Hi Harry,
Wow! Thank you for the picture. It is a great find.
Unfortunately, the caption on the back is spurious. A novice pilot, on 7 December 1944,
Hauptmann Helmut Brocke,
Stafü of 4./KG 51 in Me 262 A-2a W.Nr. 500010 "9K+KM" was probably on his first training flight at Schwabisch-Hall. On his landing approach, at low level with the landing gear extended, he banked hard left and side-slipped into the ground.
Jan Horn, in
Das Flurschaden-Geschwader, (2010), p. 195 quotes an account by the
gruppenkommandeur der II. Gruppe, on the crash. Loosely translated, one sentence says, "The Me 262 was about 500 m east of the runway in an open field.
best regards,
Jim