W34 with strange equipment down during the Polish campaing

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Here is another eBay "special" that I'm trying to figure out. I want to use this a/c as the source for a color profile painting for the EOE Project. One of our working group members thinks that this is most likely a Junkers W34 of Kurierstaffel 4 that crash-landed in the vicinity of Piekoszow near Kielce, Poland, on 27.9.39. Somewhere I think that I've seen this a/c in a color profile, but can't remember where; perhaps in one of the Polish publications. It seems to have the code WI+00U-0, or something like that. It also carries a very strange antenna mast, and some kind of unusual radio? receiver on the top of the forward fuselage. I'm wondering if this a/c was used in some kind of special communication capacity, possibly trying to obtain airborne radio direction finding fixes on Polish ground unit radios? Anybody have any insights into this? According to our research, Kurierstaffel 4 was a liaison unit serving directly under Army HQ, and at that time was based at Kielce-Maslow Airfield.

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Any help with this one would be appreciated.

Regards,