He 219 found in Denmark !!!

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello Kim,

Any news you can offer?

All the best, Marcel

[RT]

Schade ! 30 pages, is there the Wn nd date of loss found ??

Rémi

[Kim Christiansen]

Hi All

I have been in touch with the people at the museum, and they have started to work again with the restoration.

I hope that there will be an answer to our questions soon.

Us who dive, has found a new object with side scan sonar on the seabed near where the plane crashed.

We hope it is the missing engine or rear end of the tail section.

There is no visibility in the water at the moment, but we are ready to jump in the water at the first opportunity.

Sincerely,
Kim Christiansen

[SES]

Hi Kim,
That sounds promising, we can hardly wait.
bregds
SES

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello all,

Recently I have gone through all available late war accounts and diaries of former I./NJG 1 members in which they describe (or recall) the last weeks of the Gruppe at Westerland and Mildstedt. It seemed logical to me, to start with 22 March 1945 when the I./NJG 1 was heavily strafed at Münster-Handorf and preparing to the next move to the north of Germany. As expected, this search revealed no new info, not already been processed in my databases.

I am convinced that I still don't know all He219 losses in those weeks up to VE-Day, especially the accident without personal losses. So there is still a theoretical chance, that some minor accidents and/or emergency landings (and this ditching of the He219 at Hirtshals) haven't been discovered yet.

We also know that there are large gaps in our knowledge about the He219's used with the I./NJG 3 and (if still existing) Schulstaffel NJG 1. We know further that the most - if not all - He219's found at Grove/Karup were from the I./NJG 3.

Summarizing: I am still convinced that the He219 wreck once belonged to the I./NJG 3 and/or Schulstaffel mentioned and that its loss faded into obscurity because many loss records of the last weeks of the Luftwaffe seems to have been lost forever.

As Jorn Junker knows, I have a list of many I./NJG 3 members flight logs which must be checked for new He219 identities: I hope to visit that collection later this year.

All the best, Marcel

[SES]

Based on the latest research by Ron Ferguson it can now been established that the a/c most probably was a A-7.
bregds
SES

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by SES

Based on the latest research by Ron Ferguson it can now been established that the a/c most probably was a A-7.
bregds
SES

Ron sent me the update and suggested that I might post on TOCH, so here it is.