Plt Off R Marcinkus 1 Sqn Crash Location 12 Feb 42

[Chris Goss]

Some records say he came down in the sea but there are photos of his intact Hurricane in German hands which would indicate he force-landed on or near the coast in Belgium. Anyone got a firmer location?

[Leendert]

The Dutch airwar website https://db.wingstovictory.nl/pdf/584-story.pdf has the coastal border area between the Dutch province of Zeeland and the Belgian province of West-Flanders. This roughly means in the Cadzand (NL) - Knokke (BE) area.

It says a German Vorpostenrotte shot the Hurricane down and the a/c crashlanded in above mentioned area. Marcinkus POW but executed after the Great Escape in 1944.

The Vorpostenrotte VP1302/1303 that claimed the Hurricane speaks of "Quadrat 8755 AN Mitte oben", which I gathered is the southern main channel towards the Scheldt estuary, called Wielingen. But perhaps a map wizard can help you out here.

Regards,
Leendert

[RSwank]

Post #22 on this link seems to show the fuselage of the plane on a city street:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/...kuttlewascher/

Not sure if there is enough background to identify a location. Same photo here:

http://i1054.photobucket.com/albums/...jx-j-bd949.jpg

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Leendert

But perhaps a map wizard can help you out here.

Regards,
Leendert

Not exactly wizardy but you can find the Kriegmarine map squares here. An extract is attached with AN 87 shaded red.

[Chris Goss]

I have no record of it landing in NL so Knokke seems to be a probability

[Chris Goss]

Just bumping this-anyone got a source for the photo of it being taken away or even crash-landed (apart from John Foreman's book and what has been written already on this thread)