Seeking Codes for Werner Baumbach's 5./KG30 Ju88A during WC/FC & BoB

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Does anyone have any information, photos, FB or other source that would allow the EoE Project to do a color profile of Lt - Oblt Werner Baumbachs Ju88A while either during the WC/FC of May-June, 1940? He was appointed StaKap of 5./KG30 on 01.06.40, so his plane after that date might have been 4D+AN. Does anyone have any photos of that a/c during the late spring of 1940, or any plane he flew prior to his appointment as StaKap while with 5 Staffel?

There is a photo showing him with his 5 Staffel a/c but no code is visible, only the II./KG30 unit insignia on the nose. He wears a life vest in this one, so this may be during the Dunkirk operations period.

Thanx for any help on this one.

Regards,

[Clint Mitchell]

Hi, can anyone name the other crew members that are with Werner Baumbach in this photo:

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Thanks

[Nordpol54]

Gents,

no idea about the crew pic of Baumbach...
...but that photograph seems to fit Larry's request as suggesting the Ju 88 (type A-1 or early A-5) in the background - just a guess of mine - as been coded with 4D+FN.

Best Regards
Norbert

[Clint Mitchell]

I think this was Baumbach's crew because in 'Der Adler' (May 1941) there is an article titled ANGRIFF!, with a series of cockpit photos of Baumbach attacking a ship in his Ju88. It shows a member of his crew beside him in the cockpit and it is clearly the gentleman on the far right of the photo above.

[Nordpol54]

@ Clint,

if You are refering to that picture (see below) it may not clarify much because it was published about hundred times or more. This is a well known german propaganda photograph and spread around the world, i believe.

Keep on going and all the best
Norbert

P.S.: Nonetheless the canopy in that picture appears as has been taken in a Ju 88 A-1 or A-5.

[Clint Mitchell]

Yes that's one of them. I believe that shot comes from this series of photos which are the same ones that appear in the 'Der Adler' article.