1/606 Do 17 crashed on a beach

[Chris Goss]

A number of photos of a Do 17 Z of 1/606 on a beach have appeared on eBay in the past year. It would now appear that the code is 7T+NH; anyone have any ideas as to the identity?

[Larry Hickey]

Chris,

When I ran this against the EoE photo DB, I found two possible FL a/c from this unit. One is clearly 7T+HH, which had extensive areas of black over the prominent markings. This a/c probably landed intact during the fall of 1940 or winter of 1940-41. It carried the unit insignia at least on the port nose, and white prop spinner tips. Based upon your 07.04.14 TOCH post about this I have it as W.Nr.2797 down on 11.10.40. It apparently was re-gassed or repaired and later flew back to base. I have a photo of it apparently successfully taking off from the beach. I have 6-7 photos of this a/c. in the DB. There is a possibility that I'm confusing photos of two different a/c here. One +HH has bullet damage from the rear and obviously hit something in the air, damaging the port stabilizer. Looks like it might have hit a balloon cable. Are there two different a/c here?

[Chris Goss]

Larry

My photo is from the port side. Blacked out markings, no badges, port engine ripped off, cockpit and tail smashed. The HH photos I have show it back at base pretty shot up-not the same as this photo

[Larry Hickey]

Chris,

I'm going to send you some of my photos directly so we can compare notes. I'll need to be able to do color profiles of at least seven different 1./KGr606 a/c from 9/39 to 12/40, so shorting these out and getting them dated is important for the EoE project. I suspect that we both have some of the same photos, but others that are not.