unknown Wellington crash in Lower Austria

[Kurtl12]

Hello everyone,

attached an interesting picture of a Wellington Bomber. "DV646" is readable on the tail. There is no date on the picture. But it must be shot somewhere in 1943 or 1944. The bomber crashed 50 to 100 miles west of Vienna, close to a highway in Lower Austria. Can anyone identify this picture? Any help is greatly apprechiated.

Kurtl

[Alex Smart]

Hello Kurtl,

Where are you geting the info from ? re West of Vienna ??

This is a great photo , thanks.

DV646 did in fact belong to 148 Squadron and was lost on the 26th June 1942 a long way from Austria.

making a forced landing 1 km South East of Fuka railway station, which is East of Mersah Matruh, in Egypt, North Africa.Crew were to return to their unit all safe.

[Kurtl12]

Alex, thank you for the help.

An old men showed me the picture. The picture he had seemed real and no fake to me. He said that they found a camera next to a dead soldier in Lower Austria (West of Vienna). They developed the pictures and one of it was the one I posted. He told me that he saw the wreck in Austria. The men is pretty old and maybe he confused something. The ground beneath the tail looks like dessert sand.

Kurtl