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Old 2nd December 2017, 17:51
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Airfield Eastern front

Hi all,

Attached is a photo of a Bf 109 that tried to make an emergency landing on the Eastern front. The writing on the back says "near Olinin". I think this could be Olenino. The problem is that there are many different places called Olenino in Russia. My best guess is that it's the one in the Tver Oblast.

Does anyone:
- have more info on this Bf 109 like date & unit?
- know if Olinin is indeed Olenino and if so, is it correct to think it's the one in the Tver Oblast? Was there an airfield or emergency landing ground at this Olenino?

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My guess would be that this is July-September 1941 during the summer offensive toward Moscow. At that time, either the strip Olenino did not yet exist or it was a primitive emergency landing ground (Notlandeplatz). However, the caption on your photo does not necessarily imply that there was a strip at Olenino. All it says is that an emergency landing was made "near Olinin".


Oljenin (RUSS) (a.k.a. Olenino) (ZNr. 10-3469) (c. 56 12 N – 33 28 E)
General: field airstrip (Feldflugplatz) in W Russia 52 km W of Rzhev. Still under construction in August-September 1943 by the Russians. No record found of any Luftwaffe occupation or use. Surface and Dimensions: natural surface with a take-off and landing run of 1400 meters (1530 yards).
[Sources: chronologies; AFHRA, BA-MA; NARA incl. T-321 roll 239/OKL 903; OKL Flugplatzatlas; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]

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Re: Airfield Eastern front

I'm sure they just put gas in that one and flew it right out.

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The bent prop tips, bent up spinner, and missing wind screen suggests a nose-over? Is that a broken firewall, or just a bent up cowling?

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Old 3rd December 2017, 02:51
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My guess would be that this is July-September 1941 during the summer offensive toward Moscow. At that time, either the strip Olenino did not yet exist or it was a primitive emergency landing ground (Notlandeplatz). However, the caption on your photo does not necessarily imply that there was a strip at Olenino. All it says is that an emergency landing was made "near Olinin".
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Hi Larry,

Some photos show the belly landed Ju 88 B3+IM with winter camo together with this Bf 109. It would be strange to find 2 different a/c making emergency landings close to one another unless it of course was at an emergency landing ground.

AFAIK the Ju 88 B3+IM belly landed in the winter of 1941/42 so this photo was taken much later then summer 1941, probably spring 1942.

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Rudi -

That could well be. There was very heavy fighting just SW of Olenino in the vicinity of Belyj (Belyy) during the first half of 1942. JG 51 would have been the main provider of fighter support there at that time.

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Old 3rd December 2017, 17:20
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Thanks for the info, Larry. Very much appreciated.

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Hi everyone,

The was no VVS airfield at Olenino in 1941 that I am aware of. As Larry states the Soviets built an airfield there in 1943 and there is an old Aeroflot agriculture airfield there now, but that is a post war concrete strip. Aeroflot built hundreds of these in the 1950's usually at the location of former air fields. It can still be seen on satellite photos (56.1908866N, 33.4489812E)


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Thanks for the info, oquaig. Very much appreciated.

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