Hawker Typhoon loss

[Jaap Woortman]

I am sorry to say that we have to come to the conclusion that the German pilot has made a mis-identification.
If we compare the available information:
Malden is "unweit" Kleve, less then 10 kms.
The time difference is more then an hour but both early in the afternoon.
The Spitfire was to low for the Norwegian pilot to bail out safely. So at low altitude.
The complete information I have about the Spitfire crash is:
Date: 44-11-26
Time: 1215 hrs.
Place: Malden(Neth.), Droogsestraat.
A/c.: Spitfire IX PV210
Unit: 331 Sqn. RAF
Pilot: Sgt.F.N.Ostervold
See also http://www.luftwaffe.no/Table2.htm
I will check tonight if the Spitfires of 331 Sqn. had coloured spinners.

Who was the German pilot and what was his unit?

Jaap

[Stein Meum]

Sgt. Finn Normann Østervold was flying Spit IX PV210 FN-R when he was shot down by flak on 26. November 1944. No enemy fighters were observed.He bailed out,but the plane was too low and the chute failed to open.
There are no reports of any 331 or 332 Sqn planes with red spinners.However,most of the planes on these two squadrons had a red-white-blue-white-red band around the central part of the spinner.Rest of the spinner would be sky.

Stein

[pilot05]

Thank you again for your interest,
I send you a link to the picture (the quality isn't good, sorry).
It is a Fhj-Uffz from 4./JG27. I can only tell you, what he has told me. He saw a low flying plane (he said Typhoon, but he could be wrong) and he attacked it, this were only a few seconds, so it is possible that he was wrong with the colours and the spinner. He saw it crashing into the ground.

http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?i...sc06547io7.jpg

Best regards
pilot05

[Henk Welting]

Stein,
Ostervold was initially buried in a garden behind the Jonkerbos Juvenaat (juvenile house ?) at that time used as a hospital.

Henk.