Crash of hungarishe pilot Laszlo Molnar

[RT]

Around 7.aug. 1944 über Vas, is the Wn of the Bf109g known ??
Seems plane hv been recovered in the 1990ies

Remi

[Csaba B. Stenge]

The aircraft crashed west of Káld, WNr is not known. The Messer was removed from the crashing place long time ago, in the early '90's, only small fragments were recovered (some of them are still available in the crashing place)

[Dénes Bernád]

Hungary's prominent ace pilot, the 23-year-old Hadnagy (2nd Lt.) László Molnár of I./101 F.G., was shot down in air combat with Mustangs of 31st F.G. His Bf 109G-6, V.848, crashed into the forest at Káld (Vas is the county). It was his 132nd combat mission and he had 25 air victories on his tally.

German-made aircraft of the Hungarian air force (similarly to other Central and East European Axis air forces) were referred to with their locally assigned serial/tactical number (in this case V.848). The German Werknummer of these aircraft is very rarely mentioned in Hungarian documents. We know some of them mainly from German sources.

[RT]

Many thks, for these data , I suppose the V-848 was the code that wear the plane ??

Remi

[Dénes Bernád]

Yes. V stands for vadász, i.e. hunter (or fighter). This code was applied, in black, on fuselage sides, surrounding the Hungarian A.F. national markings (hence V.8+48).

[kennethklee]

My knowledge of Hungarian fighter pilots is very little, but I heard that László Molnár managed to bail out from his Bf 109, but he was shot while descending under his parachute, is this true?

[Csaba B. Stenge]

During that engagement, two Hungarian pilots were gunned down on parachute by Mustangs of 31st FG (besides Molnár - who is the guy in my avatar -the other one was János Nyemecz)

[kennethklee]

Originally Posted by Csaba Becze

During that engagement, two Hungarian pilots were gunned down on parachute by Mustangs of 31st FG (besides Molnár - who is the guy in my avatar -the other one was János Nyemecz)

Thanks for the additional information. I know this topic has been addressed before, but I am moved to comment that I find notable that all the notable pilots I know to have been killed under their parachutes were German or otherwise Axis and none were Allied, even in the Pacific theatre against the Japanese, who were purportedly known to shoot parachuting pilots.

[Teresa Maria]

Poor Laszlo! It was really barbaric of Americans to gun down pilots who had bailed out.
(Besides, Laszlo Molnar was soooo cute...)