KG26 H-111 Norway 1940 1H+AC

[Larry Hickey]

Andreas,

You refer to this as W.Nr6997. Is this for the first loss on 3 April or the later one in the summer of 1940? They must certainly be two different a/c.

We carry the first one in the EoE loss DB, without any W.Nr., as:

"April 3, 1940: Stab II./KG26 Heinkel He111H-3. Port engine damaged by naval AA fire during attack on mine-sweepers south of Middlesborough then engaged by F/L E. N. Ryder of No. 41 Squadron and starboard engine also damaged so ditched in sea off Redcar 12.45p.m. Oberstlt Hans Hefele (Gruppenkommandeur), (Ff) Lt Rudolf Gustav-Adolf Behnisch, (Bf) Uffz Albert Wilhelm Johannes Heinrich Weber and (Bm) Uffz Alfred Bächle unhurt, (Beo) Lt Georg Kempe (Gruppe NO) wounded, all rescued by fishing trawler. Aircraft IH+AC 100% write-off. (Note: we have one photo of this a/c in the EoE DB with crew before it was SD.)"

Can anyone add anything further to this? I have Bill Norman's book so I have his account of what happened. At least this one, and possibly the other will be color profiles in the EoE book project.

Regards,

[John Fredrik]

Originally Posted by Andreas Brekken

Hi, all

There are about a handful matching loss records for II./K.G.26 in Norway. I haven´t really researched these to the full extent yet, and we could try to cross-reference our way to finding out which loss record is the correct one for this WNr 6997.

If you are interested I will post the links to my loss records here?

Regards,
Andreas B

Andreas.

Please link us up to your loss record.
Would have been great to sorted this two a/c `s.

The wnr 6997 is that for the April 3 loss or the one later in Norway.

Thank you for replying!

[atckyrre]

Bringing up an old-ish thread I noticed that in the background of the Ebay picture you can probably see a Caproni wing - and judging by the scorch/burn pattern it could very well be from Sola.

[jim norton]

hi,
maybe the new and fantastic kg26-book "die spur des loewen" could help?
all the best
jim