He111H-8 balloon cable-cutter

[obdl3945]

Hi, David...

Many thanks for your response. I did a little more searching about, and managed to find a photo of G1+MT at this link http://www.btinternet.com/~air_resea...55/p48g1mt.jpg , which came down at Fulford Hall Farm, south of Birmingham. I suspect it was a standard bomber variant after the fender assembly had been removed. Similarly, G1+?L on the Ostfront, I imagine.

G1+AM is cited as being intercepted whilst doing an armed reconnaissance over the Channel, so rather unlikely that it would've been doing that with a cable-cutter fender slowing it down !

So that really only leaves 1G+ZM, which is the subject of a couple of photos at www.historyofwar.org , one of which is a rather unusual head-on view. www.luftwarchiv.de also has a photo of a cable-cutter, attributed to KG54, and fitted with external bomb racks. Do you have anything on that unit at all, pehaps...?

Regards...

Paul