Luftwaffe Dornier 17 at Goodwin Sands 'still intact'

[Khorat]

you didn´t read the articles in this forum ?

just view 4-5 below this one.....

khorat

[Kutscha]

Originally Posted by Khorat

you didn´t read the articles in this forum ?

just view 4-5 below this one.....

khorat

I didn't see any info on the crew in that thread.

[Peter D Evans]

Reproduced from The Times newspaper article from August 2010:

"On that morning Do17Z, serial no 1160, was piloted by Feldwebel Willi Effmert, aged 24. With him in the cabin cockpit were its navigator Herman Ritzel, 21; wireless operator Helmut Reinhardt, 27; and bomb aimer Heinz Huhn, 21, whose job it would be to release the aircraft's 16 50kg bombs over one of the key fighter stations at either Debden or Hornchurch.

Huhn was never to get his chance. While flying above cloud over the Strait of Dover the Dornier became separated from the rest of 7 Staffel. Some time after 1pm it was flying on its own when it was jumped at 13,000ft over Deal by a Boulton Paul Defiant of 264 Squadron from RAF Hornchurch. A two-seat fighter with a four-gun power-operated turret, the Defiant had suffered severely from Messerschmitt Bf109s during the Battle of Britain. But it was more than a match for the Do17, in spite of the latter's six machine-guns With both his engines hit, and one out of action, Effmert put his aircraft into a shallow glide and made a wheels-up forced landing on the Goodwin Sands at low water. The aircraft appears to have "ground looped" just before final impact, landing on its back and killing Reinhardt and Huhn. Effmert and Ritzel survived to be captured, and spent the remainder of their war as PoWs in Canada."

Reinhardt & Huhn bodies were both recovered with Huhn's grave at Cannock Chase being catalogued here, whilst according to Chris Goss on the other Do17 thread here Reinhardt is buried in Holland...

Cheers
Peter D Evans
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[Kutscha]

Thank you Peter.

[Joe Potter]

Attached is a photo of Huhn's original grave at Whitstable, taken by the late Peter Foote on 07.08.1960, moved to Cannock 30.10.1962.
Joe.

[Mikael Olrog]

@ polyak you can see on my website www.preservedaxisaircraft.com under the relic section that a fuselage section of a Do 215 B-5 have been receover and is on display in Holland. "Stichting Aircraft Recovery Group 1940-1945. Both engines, sections of the fuselage beneath the cockpit have been recovered as well as some parts from within the cockpit. The rest of the fuselage and the rest of the wing will hopefully be recovered soon"

And I'm curious if anyone have succeded in identifying it yet.

[joyban]

Here is an Update :-

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