ME 110 S9 +C K IN THE us 1941!

[NUPPOL]

See thread at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...?f=49&t=161321

[John Vasco]

That article has been known about for a very long time. What is NOT known is what happened to this Bf 110 D-0/B after Vultee had finished examining it and producing an exhaustive document on it...

[Flitzer]

I think the trail ends with the study by Ernest Bruce, Chief Engineer for Vultee Inc. He wrote a detail article, with photos, on his examination of the aircraft, for Aviation titled "No Ersatz, an American engineer looks at a German Messerschmitt."

The tires were marked Made in Germany, in three languages including English. The machine shows signs of hard service in many ways and it is to be surmised that this particular plane has done a great deal of military flying of one kind or another before being brought down in England.

Arrived in Los Angeles aboard freighter "Montanan" consigned to Vultee aircraft factory.

[John Vasco]

The paper trail, yes. The physical trail, no.

[NUPPOL]

Was this part of Possibly Erprobungsgruppe 210 ?
Life Magazine pp.34-35

[NUPPOL]

When/Where was it shot down?

[John Vasco]

NUPPOL,

Bf 110 D-0/B
S9+CK
W. Nr. 3341
2. Staffel, Erprobungsgruppe 210
Pilot: Oberleutnant Alfred Habisch (PoW)
Bordfunker: Unteroffizier Ernst Elfner (PoW)
Shot down following early evening raid on Croydon on 15th August 1940 by the unit.
Belly-landed at Hawkhurst, Kent.
Put on street and park display in London towards the end of August 1940
Shipped to the USA aboard SS Montanan in April 1941.
Evaluated by Vultee Aircraft Corporation.
Ultimate fate of the airframe not known.