Forced landing Fieseler Fi.156 Wnr 1203

[Hans Nauta]

Dear all,

On 5th October 1943 a Storch made a forced landing at Bergen airfield in The Netherlands as a result of engine problems. This concerned Wnr 1203 which belonged to the 6./FlGr zbV 7. Damaged for 10%.

Probably someone has a bit more info on file such as Stammkenzeichen or other details?

Thanks in advance,
Hans Nauta

[RT]

Hello Hans,

Build by Morane-saulnier, 1193 is GN+HZ 1220 is NS+EA, so your bird for sure is xx+xJ , Who has the three other letters ??

Remi

[Peter D Evans]

To throw this into the pot, on the open source LEMB Sktz Database we have this entry:

GN+HY - Fieseler Fi156C-3 - WNr.1203 - coded Q9+HY of 6./Fl.G.zbV 7 (Waffen SS)

I do note however that Peter van Gogh doesn't have a source against either WNr block (GN+?? or NS+??) so I'll ask him from where he obtained this data especially as neither matches Remi's data...

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by RT

Build by Morane-saulnier, 1193 is GN+HZ 1220 is NS+EA, so your bird for sure is xx+xJ , Who has the three other letters ??

As far as I know, Fi 156C, WNr. 1203, was GN+HY.

[gogh]

I can't find the source on my HD. Its added in the beginning of the base.



When the data is wrong I will correct it. But now there are to many
conflicts and also without a source mentioned.

Best Regards

Peter van Gogh

[RT]

A bit more to darker a bit more the board JG26 report to hv in aug.44 in strength the Fi156 wN 1208 NH+YD...

Remi

[Tony Jones]

Remi

With Denes confirming GN+AY being 1203 and your NH+YD being 1208, my lists fits. i.e GN+AZ= 1204 and NH+YA would then be 1205.

We can discuss further when we meet at the PRO on Tueday

Regards

Tony

[Doug Stankey]

According to the notes of Larry deZeng, this unit was extremely unusual. While maintained by Luftwaffe personnel, it really was operated by the Ordnungspolizei primarily to aid in hunting down partisans and consisted of at least 10 Staffeln using Fi 156s as well as Ju 87s, Si 204s, Fw 58s.

The unit I.D. code was (9Q+) but details about the rest of the coding are unknown.

Larry has a quantity of details about the activities of this unit and I expect that someday these will appear in a future book.

[Peter D Evans]

Cheers for that Doug, I think we were posting at the same time In the meantime, I've popped a message off to Peter van Gogh and asked him to quantify our database entries...

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[gogh]

Hi all

I wil check the Emails tomorrow I got over the years. I'm sure I got it
from a member of the LEMB board.

Best Regards

Peter van Gogh