Hallo Roland,
Thanks to your maps, everything fits in perfectly! Taking a close look on the other two pictures taken at the same time and at the same place, we can exactly pinpoint the dumping place of the Bodenwöhr camouflage patterned fuselages.
Here is the link and pic for the partially dismantled Bf 109 K-4 W. Nr unknown, "< 5" IV./JG 53, taken next to the unfinished K-4 fuselage pile of the above picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4036184...7622070197999/
The second picture shows the wrecks of two Me 262's and in the background the front of the same Bf 109K-4 "<5" of IV./JG 53:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4036184...7622070197999/
Now please, note two elements:
- first the discarded wings of a Ju 88 G. Having this in your mind, check out the K-4 fuselages pile, and you will see on the left a lone Jumo 213 lying among them. This engine might stems from the same machine.
- The background is paramount here: the railroad main line on its dam is very obvious, it's direction given by the same two very long freight trains we see in the background of the piled-up Bodenwöhr Bf 109K-4 fuselages. They station on side tracks which still exist nowadays (see the "Bayernwiever" link just posted by Roland). Now, following the line of the railway dam above the upturned Ju 88 wing,
we notice that the main railway line remains on a strait line, as indicated by the wagons disappearing in the distance whilst a railway embranchment, also set on an earthen dam, takes a wide curve to the left. Taking also in account the houses seen in the background, this exactly situates the aircraft dump in the meadows along the main Weiden - Nuremberg line, just after Vilseck, where the former embranchment to Heringnohe airfield left the main line.
With this photographic evidence, we can position the Bf 109 K-4 "<5" and the two Me 262 fuselages a bit further to the south then the Bodenwöhr Bf 109 K-4 fuselages, dumped a bit further north, as evidenced by the first of the three trees planted along the curved railway dam leading towards Heringnohe airfield, which shows in both pictures. Hooray!!
Roland, thanks again for your invaluable help in anchoring geographically this set of three pictures, a big asset in pinpointing the trail left by the Bodenwöhr K-4 fuselages!
And now,gents, let's hope some new photographic evidence might show up from the Cham municipal administration! And let's not forget the Flossenbürg camouflaged K-4 fuselages parked along this "location unknown" Holzrückerweg...
Cheers
Marc