This DO217 Fin is mine !

[gilles collaveri]

I managed to obtain a commitment from the owner that he gives it to me : it will exhibited at the new Toulouse air museum (to be open next year).

There is no serial number painted on it, just the numbers painted on the airframe that are on the second picture.

There was a plate but it was removed;

However, a real nice artifact.

GC

[harrison987]

NICE and RARE!!

Mike

[Ruediger Kaufmann]

Great Gilles !!!!

Best regards

Rüdiger

[gilles collaveri]

thanks, it should a real ice exhibit,

but what does "Feststellvorichtung" mean ?

Danke

Gilles

[gilles collaveri]

read "nice exhibit", of course..

Gilles

[Clint Mitchell]

An online translation brings up 'locking device' so I guess it might mark the location where the control surface locks have to be placed when stationary/parked up? Complete guess though.

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Bravo Gilles!

Marc

[gilles collaveri]

UPDATE

The aircraft have been formally identified
(Same DO217 than those quoted in my previous posts:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=33215
and
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=16709 )

they were from 9/KG100

DO 217 K2
6N + IT Wnr 4555
AND
DO 217 K3
6N + HR Wnr 4749

and the crews were:


Wnr 4555
Flugzeugführer Ofw Faust, Kurt, + (buried in Berneuil)
Kampfbeobachter Fhj-Ofw Adermann, Erich, +
Bordfunker Ogfr Schmidt, Julius, + (buried in Berneuil)
Bordwart Gefr Kraft, Josef, +

Wnr 4749
Flugzeugführer Fw Stoll, Rudolf, vermißt
Kampfbeobachter Lt Sühnel, Rudolf, vermißt
Bordfunker Uffz Welte, Erwin, vermißt
Bordwart Ogfr Wettermann, Johann, vermißt

the actual date of crash was 15 June 1944: this has been found thanks to a local police report, thus confirming the identification of these two aircraft.

I would like to find relatives of families and for that, I look for the Namentliche Verlustmeldung n° 26 & 27 (or 28) that concern III KG./100 between 11 and 16 june 1944:

by chance, any body has these NVM ?

Of course, I shall keep you posted of the findings..

Thanks a lot

GC

[mjbollinger]

Hi everyone,

As an aside, aircraft 6N+IT could be of historical significance. As a Do 217 K2 it was configured only to carry the Fritz-X, not the Hs 293. This aircraft's participation in this raid on Cherbourg would be the only probable indication that Fritz-X missions were flown over Normandy, or for that matter, on any mission after the Plymouth raid of 30 April 1944. (The K3 was configured for either the Fritz-X or Hs 293.)

Marty

[gilles collaveri]

agreed Marty,

unfortunately, the one we will get the remains back from the cavehole is probably Wnr 4749.

Best rgds

GC