German Ju 88 Wasserlandung Sep 21, 1941

[Kari Lumppio]

Hallo!

Marvellous, gentlemen. Thank You all, especially Chris and Slayer for the additional photo of V4+CT.

Finnish 12 DE (12. Division HQ) diary writes that Kronstadt (not far away) was bombed Sep 21, 1941 and an air battle was fought over Kronstadt at time 16.20. Two engine plane landed at Ino (there was coastal fortress) beach. The crew of four was saved and sent forward to Army Corps HQ (IV AK).
http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=3494922

One of the IV Army Corp AAA units has additional details about the plane.

II section 123. Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (II/123. Kev.It.Ptri) reported that 3 I-153 harassed "Do 215" which had to make emergency landing at sea near coast. The AAA unit did not open fire.
http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=2839599

What was this Soviet fighter unit and is there more details available from Russian archives?


Cheers,
Kari

PS It looks like in the Finnish photos V4+CT has got fourth row of mission stars on fin to rear from the Flugspange emblem.

[edNorth]

PS : I say also in #8 "that additional 13 - 24 mission symbols" are there,
because already noted additional row. Nice you noticed ...

[Kari Lumppio]

Originally Posted by edNorth

PS : I say also in #8 "that additional 13 - 24 mission symbols" are there,
because already noted additional row. Nice you noticed ...

Apologies that I overlooked your second input. You were the first to identify the loss. Thank You Ed from North. I really appreciate Your expertise of everything Ju 88.

Have a nice day,
Kari

PS I counted also the additional mission marks to be 13 or 14. I saw 10 or 11 rear of the Spange and 3 forward at the fourth, lowest row. It was late night and did not have the reading glasses nn so caveat.

[obdl3945]

Kari...

Interesting photos and additional information. Thanks for both. I appreciate you sharing these details, and the additional links.

Regards,

Paul

[Juha]

Hello
a small a bit OT correction to Kari's message #11.
There had been a fort at Ino a short time between 1912 and May 1918, when the 12" turret battery and other military installations of the fort Ino were blown up by the russian garrison, gun's locks and some military equipment were evacuated to Kronstadt and the fort was seized by Finns. Finns were obliged to destroy all the rest of installations of the fort Ino under the conditions of the Tartu peace treaty of 1921.