He 111 crash of KG 54 - B3+EM or B3+FM ?

[Peter Cornwell]

As Larry says, this photo has been wrongly attributed in the past (De Decker/Roba:1993) leading many authors, including myself, astray. I believe that local research by Peter T now indicates that the Moors aircraft actually fell at Hijfte, north of Lochristi, the A.I.1(k) Report No. 121/1940 indicating that it was coded B3+GM.

[RudiS]

Thank you Larry and Peter for your info.

Kind regards,
Rudi.

[Brian Bines]

The KG54 book shows for the 21-5-44 that Uffz Moors crash-landed bei Oudenarde and Oblt Willers as crash landing bei Scheldewindeke, both locations are quite close is there a possibility that both locations refer to Oblt Willers aircraft ? This would leave Uffz Moors as coming down elsewhere as Peter's post and Bugger's photo as wrongly captioned. The photo in the book of Oblt Willer's aircraft shows the nose caved in so that does not tie in with the photo.

[Peter T]

Yes, the Moors aircraft was coded B3+GM and came down in Hijfte, north of Lochristi. As for B3+EM no idea.

Peter

[RudiS]

Thanks for confirming, Peter.

Brian : Oblt Willers' He 111 that crashed landed at Scheldewindeke was coded B3+CM. The crash has been fairly well documented.
(See also Siegfried Radtkes book page 34 and Luftwaffe im Focus N° 6 for a whole bunch of pictures)

I'll guess we'll just have to wait till more pictures of the B3+EM show up, hopefully with captions on the back.

Kind regards,
Rudi.