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Re: Junkers 88 wreck part
NICK,
It is always a pleasure to read such a detailed account...Thank you for remembering me of your site and immense work transcribed there...Keep going...you do inspire a lot of persons. OBS: Passed your contact to my friend...he may contact you soon. A. |
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Re: Junkers 88 wreck part
I am impressed with your preparation. So I take this opportunity to give you some more information.
A plane's cart was recovered seven years ago, about 20km from Bari. The photo has a very low resolution but I am attaching it anyway in case it can give you some ideas. There is another Junkers 88 missing near Bari, not listed. It is a Ju88 A-4 5 / KG1 (MED) # 5712 piloted by Kohler Georg, missing in Bari on 20/04/1943. If what Nick says corresponds to reality, namely that the piece of the wreck not belonging to an A-4, the research certainly directs me on the Junkers A-5, even if on a document found on the web, the A-5 plane is reported as A-4 (attachment). But considering Nick's great work, I think it can certainly be said that it is an A-5. I will continue my research, hoping to be able to count on your help in the future. Again thank you very much! |
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Re: Junkers 88 wreck part
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Incidentally, both the missing aircraft were reported as Ju 88 A-4 by the Luftwaffe’s General Quartiermeister. |
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Re: Junkers 88 wreck part
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Baumgartner Part indentified (post #1) was (presumably) used on Ju 88 A-1 (older) thru A-17, if thats not clear - and that 300267 was truly a A-4 version aircraft - no way it be a A-5 as that version had been out of production for two years when A-4 300267 was assembled. And everybody now knows A-5 come before A-4, but shure, lots of A-5s were lost in and around Italy. Litterally thousands of Ju 88s were lost in Med area. 088/300267 Ju 88 A-4 B3+EH 1./KG 54 (Luftflotte 2) OPS (F) missing (100%) unk location (Bari Harbour) 02.12.1943 (F Fw. Walter Klein, B Ofw. Hugo Hinsch, BF Uffz. Julius Rübel and BS Gefr. Paul Höfler missing) [Note: 2 losses in night 02.-03.12.43 of 105 aircraft force sent to attack Bari Harbour.] |
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Re: Junkers 88 wreck part
Good morning everybody, i' a diver involved at the moment in some researches in Adriatic sea about german and allied wrecks.
I was talking with the owner of the part found on the Bari beach and the part seems molten. About the raid: we have witnesses that one plane in 2 dec attack crashed in front of Molo Sant'Antonio area, the old Bari port (it's very small). The other one a bit more far away on sea direction. I can tell you that they are shallow waters always under fishing nets and a wreck recovery its quite difficult. Surely it will be in hundreads parts. We will start a recon as soon as covid 19 will be finished. It's also quite possible that the part found finished in Mola di Bari due to fishnets as it was found. Have a good day |
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