Luftwaffe aircraft down in Sweden 1940

[edNorth]

Thanks Stig. I will make note of this.

[Peter Cornwell]

Thank you Stig.

[Stig Jarlevik]

Hi Ed and Peter

I have received a photo of the plate found on the Ju 87.
I have tried to attach the photo here, but to do so does not work as per principles known by me.

If any of you want to see it, please send me a private e-mail with your own regular e-mail and I will send over the photo as an attachment

Cheers
Stig

PS: No idea how the plate became attached, but obviously I must have done something right...

[Peter Cornwell]

Stig,

Many thanks for posting that image. I will be most interested to learn if any of our experts can positively confirm that this does in fact show the actual Werk Nummer as I have a similar plate from a Ju87B down in this country where the serial is so far unrecorded. Thanks again.

[Andy Saunders]

From examples in my collection, these data plates do not hold the W.Nr of the specific aerolanes they originate from.

The B&W image is from 5518 lost on 18 August.

The colour one is from 5618 lost on 16 August.

None of the numbers bear any relation to the W.Nr although the example from 5518 has that number painted on the adjacent airframe section and can just be seen on the left hand side.

[Peter Cornwell]

Many thanks Andy - just as I thought.