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Old 11th March 2009, 19:20
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Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required

The picture is a scan of the original, owned by me.

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Old 12th March 2009, 21:45
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Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required

Hello guys!
Firstly I must beg your pardon for not answering soon, but I was travelling and really did not have access to the net.
This is very interesting, because I read somewhere too that this particular Mosquito ( W4056 - which you Andrew added a very magnific photograph to the pleasure of most of us... ) could have been shot down by those two JG 5 pilots mentioned early. And, yes, they manouvered ( it seems so ) so sharply that a Bf 109 spun and crashed down...
HOWEVER, on a Mosquito claims' list I found it seems that Oblt Herbert Huppertz from 12/JG 1 claimed a Mosquito that same 2 April 1942 near Trondheim...
WHO indeed claimed and shot down this Mosquito.
2nd Question: What kind of damage the Mosquito sustained, because it seems impossible to fly without a tailplane...They could have been hit - this I do agree, but to loose the tail...and land!? I lost a good friend down here in Brazil, a "crop duster" pilot with more than 3,500 hs when he lost the tail of an aircraft he bought and was travelling aboard...Even Super Man can not fly a plane without the horizontal stabilizer!
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PS3: Andrew, do you know the "targets" for W4056 on 2th April 1942? Was it Trondheim or something related to the Kriegsmarine?
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Old 12th March 2009, 22:04
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Re: Crew of Mosquito PRI serial W4056 - info required

A tiny bit of more info here:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/hammervatnet.html

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