Potez 637 & Potez 390

[hanshauprich]

Looking for details (Units&Crewmembers) of the loss from:

Potez637A3 No. 36

Potez 390A2 No. 80

Both planes shoot down by Flak/Fighter at the early months of 1940 near the French-German Border close to Saarbrücken. There are a few phots from the crashed planes.

[CJE]

Pz 637 n° 36 of GR I/52 :
shot down on 24 March 1940 by Ofw Griener of II./JG 52 over Zweibrücken.
A/C crashed in the no man's land, South of Rohrbach.
Pilot: Adj Barbier - slightly wounded, picked up by a French patrol.
Obs: S/Lt Elie Brugerolles - killed by the first burst.
Gunner: Sgt Serge Dumas - mortally wounded.

I don't have a Potez 390 n° 80, but I have a n° 50.

Pz 390 n° 50 of GAO 505
shot up and crash-landed on 21 September 1939 between Niedergailbach and Obergailbach (Moselle, France).
Pilot: S/C Achaintre (safe)
Obs: Cne Léonard (killed)

Chris

[schalabeer]

Hello!

This Potez 637 crashed between Ormersviler (F) and Brenschelbach (D) in No-mens-land. It crashed on the border between Germany and France.
@ CJE:
Do you have more informations about this crash?

Kind regards

Schalabeer

[CJE]

No further info, sorry.

Chris

[schalabeer]

The pilot who shot down the Potez 637 was Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher. He was shot down over Sussex on the 12.08.1940 and crash-landed his Bf-109E in a corn-field. Do someone have more informations about Leo Zaunbrecher (Time of PoW, after the war,...)?

Schalabeer

[Stig Jarlevik]

Schalabeer

The victory on March 24th over the Potez 637 is disputed in German sources.
BOTH Albert Griener and Leo Zaunbrecher filed claims. I cannot state what the official results were, but Barbas in his II./JG 52 book gives them equal credit, while Prien et all in his book gives Zaunbrecher the credit while remarking that Griener also filed a claim. Most probably they shot at the same aeroplane!

Cheers
Stig