Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?

[Chris Goss]

Thanks Nick. The only mention of a Do 217 at Foggia was a 7./KG 100 K-2 on 19 Sep 43. Nothing on those Wk Nr

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Thanks Nick. The only mention of a Do 217 at Foggia was a 7./KG 100 K-2 on 19 Sep 43. Nothing on those Wk Nr

Scans of the reports attached. Not all the planes from Foggia crop up together. For some reason there are more later on, after items from several other airfields.

I suspect that the photos are of 6N+KR since that's the one where the most description is provided.

[Chris Goss]

It is also interesting to note that when captured, Lt Herbert Palme of 9./KG 100 stated that when they withdrew from Foggia at the start of October 1943, a demolition party stayed behind with the task of destroying all unflyable aircraft