Messerschmitt 110 loss - May 1940, Sercus, France

[Andy Saunders]

Larry

I tend to rather favour the von Neumann loss at this stage, and in the absence of any other contender.

Whilst NE of Calais is a bit of a distance (and over the sea) do we know that the loss actually occurred there? Or was it just where the engagement took place?

It is only a theory, but if he had been hit then he may have been trying to get back to German lines and got as far as Sercus. It is possible, maybe, that he had been hit by fighters but was finished off by flak - as per the evidence found on the wreckage.If British and French forces were still on the ground in the area of Sercus then they perhaps picked up the survivor and took him with them to Dunkirk, where all ground forces were then converging?

Only a theory, and there is a danger of making something 'fit' when it could be way off track.

Do we know the last date that 2889 appears in the Flugbuch, Larry?