real or?

[Horst Weber]

Good evening !

There must be something mysteric with this downing. The a/c serial didn't find entrance to the official MACR's numerical (s/n by s/n) list.

There is no notice of the s/n in the 8th AF books of Andrews and Adams for that day.

But there are two notes in German KUJ-reports for the day:
- "24 May 44 Mustang 2106834 Wingens KUJ 1195"
- "24 May 44 1150 Mustang Wynghene, NE of Roselaere KUJ 1195"

So you can see by those circumstances, that the photo shows areal crashlanded Mustang with a German soldier in it. If it was taken for fun or for propaganda, who knows ?.

But I have no idea, why this obviously loss wasn't listed in the official U.S.
missing aircrew reporting system am why it received such high MACR-number. The average of the MACR-numbers on that May 24th was about #5,000 - 5,200.

Best regards !

Horst Weber