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Old 24th July 2019, 23:03
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Post Re: Research Me-109 and Fw-190 - 30 May 1944

hi,

found that in a german newspaper:

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For many of the then 9- to 16-year-olds, the crash was an event that has deeply engraved itself in their memories. It must have been a warm spring day in 1944. American bombers flew over Braunschweig in an easterly direction. A Messerschmitt fighter, Günter Zwingmann remembers, "was hit at a relatively low altitude". From Wedtlenstedt, Hermann Kirchner saw the plane disappear in the direction of Lamme. "Karl-Heinz Broistedt describes it as follows: "With a hideous howl the plane was shot further in the direction of the Raffturm.
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source: https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.d...n-Absturz.html

unfortunately not much more!?


for guidance:

"Lamme is a town in Lower Saxony that was incorporated into Braunschweig with the municipal reform in 1974."

"The Raffturm was one of seven defensive towers of the Braunschweig Landwehr, the medieval outer fortification of the city of Braunschweig."


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