eBAy: Captured german planes

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ArtieBob

Re #1265-Jim Crow collection has another image of this wreckage with the location identified as Bron/Lyon. No other info.

ArtieBob

I doubt if that's correct since although there was one Ju 88 found at Bron (no details recorded) there was no Me 410, as seen in the foreground. Both those types were found at Salon but none of the Ju 88s there had the W.Nr. 330177 nor the code letters GL.

The reverse of the photo shows that it has been removed from an album and the caption torn. "…is, France" is legible. So, we need somewhere else where there were both a Ju 88 S-3 and an Me 410. In France there are few possibilities for the latter type since the only ones still there by D-Day—so far as I recall—would have belonged to II./KG 51, 1.(F)/121 or 1.(F)/33 and none of those units had very many. Ju 88 S were more common of course.

[Kutscha]

That is strange looking 'G'. To me looks more like a '5' or possibly a 'S'.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Kutscha

That is strange looking 'G'. To me looks more like a '5' or possibly a 'S'.

Enlarging it, I think it's a stencilled G but I wouldn't say so with certainty.

[edwest2]

GL or 5L. A most unusual, to me, tail marking. It is different from the three part transport codes.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by edwest2

GL or 5L. A most unusual, to me, tail marking. It is different from the three part transport codes.

Quite possibly the individual aircraft and 3.Staffel code letters, omitting the unit identification.

[Merlin]

The Ju 88S-3 was most likely an aircraft from 3./KG 30:
- the unit was equipped with the S-3 from June until August 1944
- the unit was based at Le Culot in Belgium, they flew some missions from Paris-Orly during early August
- since 1943 the last two digits of the unit code were repeated at the top of the rudder by that unit

[RudiS]

Thanks everyone for trying to identify the unit of the Ju 88 in #1265.



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[S Sheflin]

Hi RudiS,
Your post #1273 illustrates an abandoned engineless Bf 109 K-4. Among its defining characteristics are: “K” wheel doors, the 4x sockets for its DB 605 D electrical connectors are barely visible on its firewall, large upper wing bumps, and open “K” tailwheel doors.
Respectfully,
Steve Sheflin

[RudiS]

Thanks Steve.


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[RudiS]

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