He111 WNr. in 1940 or later

[Larry Hickey]

Rémi,

Thank you so much for this information. Can you please cite a source for the W.Nr. of the Sellnrod He111H-2? Here is what we currently carry in the EOE loss DB on that one:


27. March 1940
Stabsstaffel KG1 Heinkel He111H-2. Crashed and burned out at Sellnrod, 35 km east of Giessen, due to engine failure on return from combat sortie. (Ff) Uffz Erich Keerl, (Beo) Hptm Johann Tippmann (Stabstaffelkapitän), (Bf) Uffz Walter Volzer, and (Bm) Uffz Willi Klinkert all killed. Aircraft 100% write-off.

Obviously we don't have a W.Nr. assigned to this incident, and I'd very much like to add your info to this entry, if we can determine the source. This confirms that the He111H-2 1T+EL, of 3./KGr.126, down near Hoogerheide, Netherlands, on 12.5.40 was 5577, not 5571, as is currently reported in "The Battle of France Then and Now." This is one of the hundreds of changes, additions and corrections that Peter Cornwell has made to the Luftwaffe loss DB for 1939-40 as a result of the EOE research project.

Incidentally, I'm looking for photos of 1T+AL, the a/c of the StaKap, Oblt. Friedrich Sawade, which crashed about 1 km distant from 1T+EL in the same combat. We have excellent photos of the latter in our EOE DB, but none of the former. Does anyone have such photos of the crashed 1T+AL?

Warm regards,