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Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?
No date or location but anyone have any ideas?
Last edited by Chris Goss; 13th July 2020 at 15:41. |
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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:
FOGGIA 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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Re: Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?
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I suspect that the photos are of 6N+KR since that's the one where the most description is provided. |
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Re: Any Ideas of this Do 217 Crash?
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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