He-111 crash 16.12.1943 Croatia

[Larry deZeng]

Hi Tomislav,

I knew if this thread stayed current long enough one of the true experts on the air war over the former Yugoslavia - and particularly the NDH - would eventually find it! Thanks for joining in, and I think you are right about the date.

I would like to add one other possibility for consideration: a He 111 from BFS 5 based at Zemun (Semlin), July 1941 - October 1943. This school had lots of HE 111s and the student crews flew them all over the NDH, BiH, Srbska area and even beyond that. It's not too much of a stretch of the imagination to think of one of them crashing at Crikvenica after a practice flight to North Italy or Italian-occupied Slovenia. I have notes on some of the BFS 5 He 111 H-5, H-6 and P-5 losses over the Balkans but I did not write them all down and none of those that I have match the Crikvenica crash. Without the correct date or even the correct month and year, the job of finding the machine in question would be too time-consuming.

L.