Dear Gang,
I chanced on this gun camera film over on reddit showing the impressive chase and demise at tree top level of a KG 40 Fw 200, early in 1944:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GunCameraCl...r_taking_fire/
I at first thought this would be Fw 200 C-4/U2 W.Nr. 0139 "F8+HW", 12.(Erg)/KG 40, shot down by 247 Sqn Typhoon at Semerville, 15 km S of Chateaudun, France, 29.01.1944. (FF) Fluglehrer Ofw Karl-Heinz Schwenicke WIA, (F.2) Uffz. Karl Rau KIA, (F.2) Fw. Kurt Miklas KIA, (Bf) Uffz. Erhard Jaensch KIA, (Bm) Ofw. Josef Haas WIA, (Bm) Fw. Karl Sandl WIA, (TP) Ogfr. Benedikt Helmer KIA and (TP) Fw. Johann Nelles WIA. Source: Skutts, Fw200, s.246; TOCH (10.1.2006, Brian Bines, Chris Goss)
After checking the available 247 Sqn gun camera films, they do not match alas:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060036749
There are two other candidates :
- Fw 200 C from 1./KG 40, shot down by 418 Sqn Beaufighters at Vorly-Mangoux, SW of Bourges, 27.01.1944.
- Fw 200C-4 W.Nr. 0170, 8./KG 40, shot down by P-38's at Annoix, along the Crosses - St.Just road, 10 km SW of Bourges-Avord, 05.02.1944.
Thanks in advance for any lead in order to identify this machine.