ID help: Heinkel h-111 Kg 26 Verdal - Norway

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

I do not have access to my wartime maps of Værnes here right now, but the main runway has been running east/west.

Looking at your holiday snap, the aircraft you are sitting in is parked at Terminal A, thus it is pointing with it's nose to the south. You are looking out over the port wing, thus nearly directly to the east.

So - you are not looking at the Skatval ridge, which is top the north-west of the tower at Værnes, you are looking at the ridge to the north-east of the airstrip, called Brannen.

If all our assumptions are correct, then I would place the aircraft close to the eastern end of the runway, and to the north of it. The person taking the photograph is taking it in the general direction of Brannen, capturing the falling ridge in the Vassbygda area on the left and the lower ridges in the Vollskogen area in the right parts of the photograph. The aircraft parked in the distance parked against the treeline close to where there were some military buildings including from my recollection a rather large hangar when I lived in the area as a child.

Regards,
Andreas

[Primoz]

You can find photos of two different He 111H coded 1H+AC - one in Manfred Griehl's He 111 book (Motorbuch-Verlag) on p. 121 (taken in Lübeck-Blankensee in winter) and two in "Luftkrieg über Afrika" by Lucchini / Leproni - Band II on p. 30 and p. 50 (late 1940 / early 1941 in Sicily)

In both cases the letters "AC" are white. At least the second aircraft has white letters "AC" on the leading edge, too.

[steve sheridan]

Hi primoz, i think Larry Hickey with the EoE group was working on establishing leads as to whether 1H+AC may have been W.Nr.6997 an He111H-4 variant.
Larry had photos showing this a/c in a dismantled state being towed away for repairs. I believe theres a separate thread within the search pages.

Best regs,
Steve.

[obdl3945]

Hi...


Just noticed I had the undernoted image in my collection. Not sure if it's helpful and sadly, there are no details as to what date this aircraft was photographed, but it shows the code letters repeated on the wing leading edge and indeed, coded the same as the Heinkel in post #11 - 1H+BC.

Regards,

Paul


Image from expired ebay auction, June 2012.