[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

As part of a much larger project, I am working with several others, including Peter Cornwell, to match up the existing photos of the Ju52 losses in Holland with the material presented by Peter in his recently published book, "The Battle of France Then and Now." We are dealing with some 200 +/- crashes, crash landings and damaged Ju52 aircraft. Literally hundreds, if not thousands of photos exist of these crashes. Some members of our "Dutch Team" are actually visiting many of the identified locations of Ju52 losses to verify photo identifications, research local archive sources and acquire locally available information, including eye-witness accounts of these incidents. One of the problems that we've encountered is that unit codes on photos of some crashed aircraft with known locations are not matching up with unit information on the crashes as previously compiled and published by Brongers, and relied on heavily by Peter for his BoFRT&N Ju52 loss data. We've recently documented a Ju52 loss with clearly visible "1Z" codes that is supposed to be an aircraft from KGrzbV.11, rather than KGzbV.1, which is identified with the code "1Z." I can find no reference source for the Geschwader/Gruppe codes for KGrzbV.11 in either Ketley or Merrick. Does anyone know the correct codes for the Ju52 transport unit KGrzbV.11 during the Western Campaign? If anyone is interested in helping with this project that is not already working with our research group, or has information and/or photos that you think would be of help, I would appreciate hearing from you via my private message box. We are doing the same for other countries and other aircraft types during the same period, an enormous task, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx,