Trying to find location of a captured plane

[Roger Gaemperle]

Hello,

I have two original wartime photos of the same German Fw 190 from different sources. At least one different photo of the same aircraft has been published before. The problem I am having is that all three sources indicate a different location:

- Published: Lippstadt, Germany
- 1st original photo, hand-written wartime caption: Namur, Belgium
- 2nd original photo, hand-written caption, maybe postwar: near Duesseldorf

The original photos were taken by members of:

• 198th General Hospital
• 118th AAA Battery

I am now trying to find the different locations of these units during WWII, which should help determine which of the three places was the most possible one.

Does anybody know where best to find such information (online source, forum?).

Thanks,
Roger

[ClinA-78]

Hello Roger,

Maybe you can post it as I am quite familiar with the Namur area in Belgium. Did they reveal any details of the landscape?

Best regards

ClinA-78

[Icare9]

Surely it's possible for the aircraft to have been flown to different locations and photographed in these different places?
I would think the handwritten captions would be more accurate, probably written by the photographer who should know where he was!!
A "captured" plane infers it was taken from the enemy, not simply left on an airfield and simply taken over.

[Roger Gaemperle]

Hello ClinA-78 and Icare9,

Thanks for your thoughts. As I am going to publish the photos in a book this year, I can't show them here, but they do not show many details fo the landscape. Some trees and a house in the background.

The aircraft was not airworthy anymore and it was a German Fw 190. If it had been flown by US pilots it would have received US markings before. It still has German markings on both photos.

Do you have any idea where to find the unit histories of the 198th Gen. Hospital and 118th AAA battery?

Cheers,
Roger