crashed Ju188 D2 in Poland - help

[edNorth]

Hello;

Thanks for posting the photos. They are great.
Yes this looks like the same one. I am not at home now and do not have the magazine. I can probably get it in a few days but some one else might help also. However the photos and article in Jet&Prop 01/2002 are, if I remember correctly, cuttings out of an (Polish) newspaper/magzine! And are of worse quality, compared to those abowe.

The number on the ´Conversion Reference´ (sic) plate (´Aenderungstufe 8 ..´) is 150520 but corresponds well to the of delivery other Siebel mounted Ju 188 D-2´s (Recce; Jumo 213 engines) to the Luftwaffe around that time (9.10.1944). No loss in my lists seems to fit to this one (hence I had no number at first). Perhaps someone else might have the answer.

I can but speculate to the unit, but if it had come from Kirkenes it could have been ex- 1.(F)/124, ex-III/KG 26 (unlikely), ex-1.(F)120 or something like that... and perhaps going to (F)/122 in Italy?

cheers
ed