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Originally Posted by peter monasso
Hi all !
Thanks to John, Andreas and Karl,
It’s also a mystery to me ! The LB report of 9-5-44 about crash 8-5-44 and the crash site are exactly the same: name farmer, name farmhouse, address etc. and that’s the place where we did excavate and found the little plate with WN 682655. The suggestion for another Fw of II Sturm/JG4 or JG3 is not too bad so is there anyone who has more info about losses of these units ? I checked my files about the other 5 Fw sites of 14-1-45 we excavated in the past but these have other WN’s as follows: Fw 190A-9 205241 Stab/JG3 Bodo Siegfried, Fw 190A-9 205266 13/JG3 Karl Kleinemeier, Fw 190A-8/R2 682218 13/JG3 Otto Ehrhardt, Fw 190 A-8/R2 739412 15/JG3 Harry Götz and Fw 190A-8/R2 682820 14/JG3 Heinz Bake.
So in fact there is not a chance that we switched the little plates. Apart from that the notation of WN 682655 was made immediately after I found it on 21st June 1975. The other Fw 190 sites (9) we examined were not of 14-1-45 and even if they were we didn’t find WN-plates on those occasions so couldn’t have swop these. Maybe someone will find more info on 682655 to solve this mystery in due course. Thank you for your help.
Peter
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Hello Peter, Andreas and John.
Is it possible that 2 aircraft came down near the farm of KLein Gunnewiek?
One on 08/05/1944 and the other one on 14/01/1945?
The LB report from 9/5/1944 says: "the aircraft was competely destroyed and the wreckage was spread out over a large area".
The combination BMW D engine, MK-108 and MG-151 and Wnr 682655
must be a IV (Sturm)./ JG 3 aircraft!
The Fw 190A8-R2 had the outer MG-151 replaced by a MK-108!
SO they carried one Mk 108 and one MG 151 in each wing!
From 8 a/c of IV./JG 3 there is a "Verlustmeldung".
According to Prien page 285 "demnach wurde der gesammte Verband im Luftkampf abgeschossen"! =12 aircraft!
Heinz Bake sagt: "Die Gruppe 12 Machinen stark, unter Führung of Fw Oscar Boesch.........."und soweit mir bekannt, bis auf Uffz Rolf Bertoche alle abgeschossen"!
Regards
Karl Lusink
ARGA