ID of Do17P with Z5 Unit Code

[Larry Hickey]

Rob,

Thanks for your additional research. I'll be in touch directly about a translation of what appears to be an excellent Dutch entry. This might even be somehow related to the Do17 and Hs126 destroyed/damaged on Waalhaven AF during the beginning of the Meidagen, which is the subject of a separate post.

Thanks to lots of direct messages from EOE Project supporters, I've now located a photo of a second (different) Do17M? probably also FL during the Western Campaign, which is probably the second one mentioned by Peter C. in his email to me quoted earlier in this thread.

I've also located two photos of a Do17M-1 of this same unit with Z5 codes in the ECPA Collection from 1939-40, which we now have in the EOE DB (some 2200 images). These are ECPA images DAA 609 L14 and L15. These two show a crew about to depart on a mission saluting probably their StaKap. The aircraft appears to be Z5+BH or DH, with the B or D in a medium color (not white). Interestingly, these two film frames are on the same film roll as the well-known "Cafe Archibald" sequence of 3./JG2, from about April, 1940.

Despite the ample evidence for Do17M-1s and a Fi156 carrying this Z5 code during the spring of 1940, and at least two of the former being forced down in probably France, there is still no confirmed connection between this code and Aufklärungsstaffel I Flakkorps. The evidence mounts, but it is still only circumstantial. Who can provide this direct connection based on hard documentation?

Regards,