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Old 27th May 2020, 10:46
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Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?

No date or location but anyone have any ideas?

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Re: Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?

The same photos are on file at TNA: AIR 40/2159 "A.I.2(g) reports 1030 - 1343A (incomplete) (Jun–Nov 43)". It'll be one of the following:

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Do 217K - - "Special aerial array"*; 24,50m. span; W.Nr. "may be 134 from a part" [meaning this number was marked on some piece of the aircraft].

Do 217E-5 5615 6N+GP Belly-landed (KG+YW)

Do 217 - 6N+KP FuG 200.

Do 217K 4560 6N+KR 24,50m. span; 4560 was painted on the nose and fin but in another report the W.Nr. is recorded [from inside the aircraft?] as 3420.

All the above aircraft, which were examined on 6.10.43, had fuel tanks shaped to fill their bomb-bays; "Giesskanne" and pilot's periscope.
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Re: Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?

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
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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.
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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
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