About a Bf 10 G 6/AS (probably) crashed in 1944

[Arno Dill]

Looking for information about this picture and plane. Can somebody help me. Tanks

[Jochen Prien]

Looks like the WerkNr. can be read in the original image - can you decipher it and tell us the result? It might help us to identify the wreck and find out its whereabouts.

KR

Jochen Prien

[Nick Beale]

I think the last three digits could be 787 but they just disappear into pixels if you magnify the image very far.

[Jochen Prien]

Assuming the last three digits of the WerkNr. are indeed 787, then this could be the remains of Bf109G-6/AS WerkNr. 163 787 from 5./JG27 which crashed near Wilsdorf on 29 August 1944 during a transfer flight owing to hitting an obstruction in bad weather, the pilot Uffz. Heinz Tampier being killed. The markings would have been "white 16 + -". Yet, this is only a guess until we can clearly see the complete WerkNr.

KR

Jochen Prien

[Stephen M. Fochuk]

Where are the wings? Looks the machine was blown up instead of being recovered.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Jochen Prien

Assuming the last three digits of the WerkNr. are indeed 787, then this could be the remains of Bf109G-6/AS WerkNr. 163 787
Jochen Prien

163 … would be my best guess (and only a guess) at the first three digits in the photo. Well spotted!

[Arno Dill]

Many thanks for Jochen and Nick. I don't remenber the origin of the picture, but probably via internet. The owner write on back side a Werk Nummer 140387 and a location "Goupillore". Perhaps for Goupillieres, two villages in France, one not far away from Rambouillet (Yvelines) the other south of Caen in the Calvados !

[RT]

This type of Ruder so early ??

Rémi

[S Sheflin]

Hello everyone,
Regarding the tail assembly on this “AS,” while all of the details are not totally clear in the photo, what looks like a metal rudder with the “standard“ curved lower outline, suggest that this is a tall metal unit. This would fit nicely with its being a Bf 109 G-6/AS in 1944.
Respectfully,
Steve Sheflin

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Hi there,

The origin of this image is a veteran photo posted by Lonnie over on Flickr.com:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/meanpc...-G5vJ4J-G7NNTB

The original caption says indeed "Goupillore, France. Crashed german plane."

I tried to read the W.Nr. when I found that photo and formulated the W.Nr. 140387 hypothesis. Scrutinizing this photo again, we might have 165387, the last four digits being quite readable.
For W.Nr. 165387, I have a 30% Bedienungsfehler bei Landung damage at Fl.Pl. Darmstadt-Griessheim incurred 10 July 1944, and then nothing more.

Notice too that this machine is in the overall RLM 76 scheme as applied by Reparaturbetrieb ERLA VII at Antwerpen.

Cheers
Marc