The Eagles Over Europe Project

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Thanx to all who have helped sort this all out. Your efforts are appreciated.

Remi,

You got to the heart of my problem, and I'll refer to this AF from now on as Villacoublay Airfield, Vélizy, France, which is the system that I use on my profiles and photo captions.

You earlier asked about the W.Nr. on this a/c. We've enlarged the W.Nr. and one of our key German experts (Merlin on this board) thinks that it is 1349, "which would indicate a Bf 110C-1 from the second Augsburg batch, manufactured during June 1939." However, this is very hard to read, and some think that this is a C-2, rather than a C-1. So there is still room for discussion here.

This is not the a/c in which Hptm Horst Liensberger, the Gr Kdr, was shot down on 27 Sept 1940, which was W.Nr.3560. We're trying to do profiles of both a/c. The problem with doing the latter is that we have only the intact tail to work from, with four cocardes, and the rest is wreckage. We have to reconstruct the rest from the known camouflage patterns used on a/c in that serial number batch, and the white nose carried by unit aircraft during Sept., 1940. If, by chance, anyone has a photo of W.Nr. 3560 before it crashed, this would be a big help to us.