Seeking Western Campaign crash locations & crew IDs for 3 shot down KG54

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

We've made very important progress within the EOE Working Group on completing a definitive Luftwaffe loss data base and matching a large number of crash and forced landing photos to these entries. Right now, we're stumped on the following three fairly intact KG54 He111s, for which numerous photos exist that were surely taken during May-June 1940 period in France, Belgium or Holland. These are B3+BK, B3+EM and B3+GS. We're also seeing ID of a published photo of B3+KS which looks like it force-landed near an airfield. I'm also seeking additional photos of B3+HK. We have only a medium quality image of this aircraft obtained from eBay. This plane came down near Onnaing, France, on May 17th, with the center of the plane burned out. The former three all came down intact and show major damage from fighter attacks and/or flak damage. B3+GS had the tail either blown off to destroyed it on the ground, or torn off when it attempted a wheels down landing and one side of the gear collapsed. Please do not send in B3+EM as the a/c of Uffz Moors. This has been mis-identified by many sources as his aircraft down at Oudenaarde, Belgium, on May 21, which is incorrect information. B3+EM came down in France on an unknown date. Uffz Moors was piloting B3+GM, which was completely destroyed when it came down near Lochristi, Belgium, on May 21st. We have many photos of the wreckage of that aircraft.

Any assistance with these crashes, or with any other KG54 losses during the WC would be much appreciated. We now have confirmed photos of losses of three He111s from the disastrous 8./KG54 raid on May 10th, that resulted in the loss of six planes. We have identified with photos the wreckage of B3+AS, B3+BS and B3+DS; the B3+GS mentioned above could be one of the three remaining, one of which came down across the border from Belgium in Holland.

Regards,