He 111 crash of KG 54 - B3+EM or B3+FM ?

[Larry Hickey]

Bugger,

I have eight photos of this aircraft in the EOE Data Base: essentially the caption info summary is: "Lu_40-5-21 He111P 4-KG54 B3+EM Uffz Josef Moors Pilot POW FL near Oudenarde in Flanders Belgium." The photo that you posted is from the SHD Collection (French Dept of Defense).

However, I believe that this is the same aircraft that Peter Taghon has investigated and based on local sources discovered that the aircraft that came down at Oudenarde was destroyed in the crash. I have a photo of B3+EM being removed from the site for repair/salvage. IIR Peter T. said that B3+EM must have come down elsewhere, probably in France. For years, this code/crew has been associatated with the Ourdenarde crash by several authors, including Radke, who wrote the KG54 history (in German). Based on this erroneous info, you will get identifications from these wrongly attributed sources. Apparently, however, they will be incorrect, but I haven't been able to determine the correct location the FL of B3+EM. Nor am I aware that the true identity of the Oudenarde crash been determined.

If there is anyone out there that can resolve the correct location of the loss of B3+EM and the Moors crew, I would very much appreciate hearing from them. The same for the correct ID of the plane and crew that was lost at Oudenarde. I hope that I've got all of this right, as I'm doing this from memory at the moment.

Regards,