2 Mar 1941 Any Luftwaffe casualty matching a AIR50 combat report.

[dp_burke]

I'm going to have to buy the book!
So, to recap, the aircraft probably was not Wk nr 031 and its was not written off.

And it was many months later that the injury notice was added to the GQM.

For my purposes, Crabb did attack an aircraft, damaged it enough that it was forced to make a wheels up landing in Norway, but it was not a write off and no one was killed.

[Chris Goss]

Records say Wk Nr 0031 was the ac involved on 2 Mar 41 and if so, was not written off

[Martin Gleeson]

Chris,

"From my forthcoming book:"

Could you please tell us just a little about it ? Seems very interesting. It's unfair to tease us, especially at Christmas time !

Regards,

Martin.

[Andrew Arthy]

Hi,

Here's a little more from the German side about this mission and combat:

"1130 Uhr griff 1 weiteres Kampfflugzeug (FW 200) bei gleicher Aufklaerung 280 km nordwestlich Tory Island 1 Geleitzug, bestehend aus 40 Handelsschiffen unter Schutz von Zerstoerern und einem Kampfflugzeug auf Westkurs mit 6 SC 250 an, versenkte
1 Handelsschiff von 10 000 BRT
1 Handelsschiff von 8 000 BRT und beschaedigte weiterhin
1 Handelsschiff von 6 000 BRT

Bei weiterer Durchfuehrung des Aufklaerungsfluges schoss die Besatzung in Luftkampf gegen 2 feindliche Jaeger von Muster Spitfire 140 km suedostwaerts Lerwick 1 Spitfire ab."

This was the only daylight Luftwaffe aerial victory claim on the Western Front on this day.

Cheers,
Andrew A.
Air War Publications - www.airwarpublications.com/earticles

[Chris Goss]

Martin
Fw 200 Combat Units is with Osprey for publishing early next year. This will be followed middle next year with a Fw 200 photo album book for Frontline & finally in 2017, a more complete & in depth book together with another respected author for a publisher who is in the midst of a contract for it

[edNorth]

That was Fw 200 C-3 0031 (60%) of "KGr. 40" (sic)
"near Stavanger" but no code was given in GQM.
Reg Rat Schwalb was reported again in GQM amendment c/19.12.41 as "unverletst"

200/0031
- Fw 200 C-3 [SG+KG] Luftwaffe
- Fw 200 KG 40 (Luftwaffe)
OPS (F) damaged (60%) in interception at 14:35 hrs by RAF Hurricanes of 3 SQ (P/O. Robertson and P/O. Gabb) off Sumburgh, Shetlands, but force landed near Stavanger, Norway 02.03.1941 (Reg.Rat. Karl Schwalb inj/rep uninj. in BA-MA RL 2 III 756 amd c/19.12.41)
- Fw 200 C-3 [F8+DH] I/KG 40 (Luftwaffe)
Temporary repair without fuselage Gondola
Known unservicable at Gardermoen 06.07.1941 [NA HW13/95 SALU 141 - PART II (dated 10.07.41 - in notes and revisions).]
- III/KG 40 - F8+BT - Damaged (40%) at Lechfeld 13.10.1941
- I/KG 40 (Norway) DAM (10%) Værnes 08.09.1942
- F8+BT IV/KG 40 (Training) Crashed at Royan, France 31.07.1942 (Oblt. Krebs)

Qoutations are at anyones own risk. Double checking on later data is not available (F8+BT etc.) to this author.

[Chris Goss]

Interesting. Puzzled that it was damaged at Vaernes 8 Sep 42 having been 100% on 31 Jul 42? I have the 8 Sep 42 ac as being C-2 Wk Nr 0081 F8+CK

[edNorth]

As I said, file is corrupt with "old" info; had info from handwirtten (not mine) notes included, now this one has been corrected :-)

[Chris Goss]

Thought I wasn't going mad!

[edNorth]

0081 Fw 200 C-3/U4 lost as F8+CK (Iceland area) 31.12.42