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Old 15th September 2019, 15:59
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German 109 parts?

Found these parts (see attachment) at a crashsite east of former airbase Y-29 in Zutendaal, Belgium. Anybody familiar with 109 parts? Anything recognizable? Thanks.
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Old 15th September 2019, 19:41
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Re: German 109 parts?

Doesn't look like a Bf 109, at least for the 2nd part.

Background story may help.

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Old 16th September 2019, 10:51
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Re: German 109 parts?

This research started as follows. In several books and publications about the Bodenplatte action above the Y-29 airfield, American pilots give a description about the location of some German crashsites. For example in “The Bluenoser” Vol. VIII-No 1 February 1994 (352nd Fighter Group Association) on p. 3: “My first burst brought hits from nose to tail, and the A/C rolled over from about 500ft., and went straight in less than ½ mile east of the field.” So with this information I went searching and found an interesting location on an aerial picture from 1945. And the PDF-files in this thread are the results of the detection. I have to say that very little was found at the spot. But the ground is certainly disturbed here. A big hole was dug. So I assume the site was investigated with the help of big machines (in the WWII period). Hereby attached some more parts.
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Old 25th September 2019, 09:18
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Re: German 109 parts?

Apparently the parts seem NOT to be of German origin. As they are most certain coming from a plane with a combination of wood and metal structure, it is more likely that they belonged to Mosquito MV570. As this aircraft made an emergency crash-landing at 1km from the find-location.
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