Bernhard Jope KG 40

[Larry Hickey]

Thanx "schnellmeyer,"

If you can document the markings on this a/c, we'll probably do a major painting of this incident for the EoE Project, and likely a color profile of his a/c. Good luck on the hunt!

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator

[schnellmeyer]

Hi Larry , today I got two photos from Germany which shows Bernhard Jope returning after he bombed The Empress of Britain . The first photo shows the FW200 landing but it was taken from a distance so one cannot make out the codes . The other photo shows Jope with senior Luftwaffe officers standing in front of his FW200 Condor , again one cannot see the aircraft codes but the name " Serius" is clear to see on the nose of the plane .
All we need to do now is see what codes " Serius" carried and we have our plane , well I hope so anyway !

[Chris Goss]

The AP photo archive arrived yesterday-there is quite a bit on Jope so I will look closer but I am not hopeful of answering this positively

[schnellmeyer]

Super stuff Chris , hopefully you may have good news for us .

[Marc BENOIT]

Hello,

I think the name of the plane is "Sirius"

Best regards

Marc

[schnellmeyer]

Hi Marc , yes you are right . The name on the FW200 was spelt "Sirius" , sorry for that mistake .

[Chris Goss]

Sorry but nothing that would link either to the ship of the FW 200 that I can find at this time

[Günther Ott]

When attacking the Empress of Britain, Jope's aircraft was the Fw 200 C-2 F8+BK.