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Re: Fw Werner Gerhardt 10./NJG 1 Claim 26 Oct 40
Today 80 years ago...
The NIMH image bank (Dutch national institute for military history) has a picture with the following text (translated):
The captured crew members of the Lockheed Hudson of the PRU shot down near Wolphaartsdijk on 26 October 1940 with serial number N7301 at Vlissingen airfield. To the left and right are the two German fighter pilots who claim to have shot down the aircraft: Oberfeldwebel Werner Gerhardt (left) and Gefreiter Streicher (right). One of the British crew members, Pilot Officer C.G. Broome, was killed in the crash. He was buried in Vlissingen. Leutnant Heinbockel of the Stab III./JG 54 also claimed to have shot down this aircraft and to him the victory was finally officially awarded.
So, in contrast to what the Wings to Victory database says, the victory was credited to Heinbockel...
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