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Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Rudolf Hess "escaped" from Germany to GB (Scotland) on 10 V 1941. He had used a Me 110.
I wonder if there are any more detail about his flight: a) from where he took off (Berlin-Tempelhof)? b) which plane he had used (I think it was not any regural unit's plane? c) which time he took off? Regards mw
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Wikipedia will give you those details
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Hi Marek,
He t/o from Augsburg in Bf 110D, W.Nr.3869, VJ-OQ at 5.45pm. When over Scotland he was traced by Czechoslovak pair Sgt Srom and Sgt Bauman of the 245 Sqn as bogey. When in visual and attack range they were vectored out by control, and surprised much more next day when they opened newspapers and read it was Fuehrer´s deputy ... Regards, Michal |
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Hello Mirek,
See: http://www.leninimports.com/rudolf_h...he_royals.html scroll down and you will find a map. Best regards, Rob
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Hello Mirek,
You can also try in Polish: Wołoszański B., Ten okrutny wiek cz. 2, Warszawa 1996. You will find there some photos taken by Karlheinz Pintsch - according to him just before last flight of Hess. Also some photos from the crash site are published. Code similar to NJ+QQ is visible. Reagrds |
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Hi, Great thanks, :-)
for this information Regards mw
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
A section of the Bf 110's fuselage is in the Imperial War Museum.
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
... and the DB601 engine displayed upside-down for decades was also from that Bf 110.
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Re: Rudolf Hess escape 10 may 1941?
Yesterday I have bought a book about Friedrich Knolle, written by Perry Pierik. It's called "Friedrich Knolle. Bekentenissen van een SD-officier".
Knolle was in the Sicherheidsdienst in the Netherlands at the time Hess flew to the UK. He made at page 251 an interesting remark in note 41. "Knolle declared to Ebbe van Tonningen in an interview that that the wingman of Rudolf Hess was nobody else than Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, the 'butcher of Prague'. Heydrich was often a guest of the parents of Knolle's wife. Two days before the flight of Hess to the UK he had spoken with him. Interview of Ebbe van Tonningen with Knolle, July 1971." Jaap |
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