Aufklärer loss - Feb 1944 - South Vitebsk

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Sadly I do have no date behind a photograph showing a Whermacht Officer inspecting a huge Russian Flak hit onto the white camouflaged wing of an Aufklärer machine.

The text behind the photograph do inform that the machine (apparently a Ju 88 D or a Fw 189) landed behind German lines to the South (Southeast or Southwest) of VITEBSK.

The sole reference is FEBRUARY 1944.

I am aware that the Battle of Vitebsk started on the 5 February 1944 so the amount of losses may be huge...however this machine was not 100% destroyed and apparently was recovered with some 40-60% of damages...

Is there the RECORD of possible Auflkärer candidates which landed on the South of VITEBSK during this period?

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[Matti Salonen]

I could find only this:

1944-02-07, 4.(H)/31 (NAGr. 3), Fw 189 A-3, 190, Südöstlich Witebsk
Flugzeugführer Uffz Sobiegalla, Hans, verletzt
Beobachter Uffz Bauerfeind, Helmut, verletzt
Bordschütze Fw Heinrich, Walter, +
Feindbeschuß. Bruch ? %.

Matti

[Adriano Baumgartner]

MATTI, AGAIN MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE!

Shall post the back of the photograph very soon....need to reset the image.

Thank you!

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