Need ID of 2./KG54 He111 down in Belgium 27.5.40
This is one that will take some of our Belgian friends to settle. Several photos are known to exist of an intact belly-landed He111P with the codes B3+BK, indicating 2./KG54, during the May-June, 1940 Blitzkrieg in the west. This is almost certain to have taken place somewhere in Belgium. Using Peter Cornwell's new book, it is evident that there are only two likely possibilities for this loss, which appears to have been pretty badly shot up by flak and fighters during an attack on harbor installations at Zeebrugge and Nieuport on 27.5.40:
1) An aircraft that came down at Middelburg, about 10 miles NE of Bruges, Belgium, with 2 killed, and 3 slightly WIA
2) An aircraft that was also damaged by 56 SQ RAF and flak that apparently came down at an unknown Belgian location with 2 slightly WIA, admitted to hospital (what hospital?), and 3 others captured unhurt.
Does anyone know which aircraft was B3+BK, and where specifically the second aircraft came down? Does anyone have any photos or information on the crash of the one that was NOT B3+BK?
Thanx,
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