Any confirmation of H.J. Marseille crash in France in summer 1940 ?

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Here are the two photos that I know of relating to the FL a/c at "Calais-Marck" with a note that they show an a/c of "3.(J)/LG2" flown by "Marseille." I presume that these photos were captioned from information provided by Heinz Nowarra, and come to us via the Peter Petrick and Jochen Prien Collections. I seriously question this identification as one of Marseille's crashes because his first of three with this unit was on 2 Sept 1940, when he crash-landed a "White 14" from 1.(J)/LG2 at Calais-Marck. By this time the rudder should have been painted white or yellow, or at least tipped in white or yellow. Instead it is covered by a heavy two-tone mottle of gray and green. No a/c code is visible due to the angles. Obviously, this was at or immediately after harvest time on the Pas-de-Calais. Based upon the rudder alone, it seems to me that this would more likely be late-July-early August, before the white or yellow tactical markings were applied on the rudder. If this was a 3 Staffel a/c, it wasn't likely to be Marseille, who was with 1 Staffel.

What I'm hoping by posting these is that someone will recognize other views of this a/c that may have appeared on eBay, or in other sources, that provide further identification of the a/c, perhaps even displaying a unit insignia. The grain shocks may help correlate these with other views of the crash-landing.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator

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