Damage Reports KGzbV106

[Tim O.]

Hi all

I am catching up on research and wondered if anyone has further information or damage/injury reports for the following incidents during the Norway campaign:

1. 24th April 1940 - Ju 52/3m SE+IA pilot Ernst Weible, radio operator Alfred Schmittka, force-landed Vörlesee at 19:00 due to fuel shortage after air landing troops.

2. 14th May 1940 - Ju 52/3m VK+BL pilot Ernst Weible, radio operator Alfred Schmittka, landed Stavanger at 17:37 with engine damage due to severe icing after transporting supplies.

3. 7th June 1940 Ju 52/3m RM+AC pilot Ernst Weible, radio operator Alfred Schmittka, crash-landed on island in Eelsfjord at 20:45 having been hit in the fuel tank while carrying Fallschirmjäger to Narvik. All were rescued by seaplane the following day. I have several photos of this incident, which have been shared previously but wondered if there is anything new to find!

4. 4th October 1940 Ju 52/3m RP+AY pilot Ernst Weible, radio operator Alfred Schmittka, landed Vlissingen at 16:35 having been hit by machine-gun fire from ships, which injured the flight engineer.

All help very welcome.

[srob48]

October 29th 1940:
4(Schl)/LG2.
Messerschmitt Bf109E (5593). Shot down by fighters following low-level attack on North Weald and force-landed at Langenhoe Wick, Essex, 5.00pm. Oberfw. Josef Harmeling (F) captured slightly wounded. Aircraft white +N a write-off.

Hope that's the same Josef Harmeling you are looking for?

Also, do you have ranks for Ernst Weible and Alfred Schmittka in June and October 1940?

[RT]

RM+AC was Wn 5246, seems damage was no so big as he flew later for the KGzbv108..
As the plane crashed near Oslo, I Wonder which type of "Foe" caused the crash ??


Rémi

[srob48]

I have checked the book 'Fledgling Eagles' for 7th June, and that makes no mention of the Ju52 from KG.z.b.V.106. I also checked where 'Eelsfjord' is in Norway. The only result I found is Elsfjord which is beside a Fjord, but there's no island there. That is about 350km south-west of Narvik and a long way north of Oslo.

[RT]

Indeed date is given on 8.th, unit KGrzbv107, many confusions with this loss

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Rémi

[Norbert Schuchbauer]

Maybe it is Velsfjord near Fornebu?

Regards,
Norbert

[Chris Goss]

He is not after information on Harmeling but is after finding his Ehrenpokal

[Tim O.]

Hi guys

Apologies for the late response - I have been away on business for a few weeks.

The entry in Schmittka's Flugbuch for 7th June 1940 looks like it was Velsfjord and then corrected to Eelsfjord. I also attach an image of the crashed RM+AC.

srob48 I think they would have had the ranks of Unteroffizier in October 1940.

Chris is correct - my footnote is meant to convey that I am looking for the Ehrenpokals for these men. I have their award documents.

Thanks for the help.

[RT]

So on return flight he crashed in an island on Velsfjord,

The Kz, U4+, for Erg.KGr.4 ,,??

Rémi