Me 109 G6 R3 ?

[stephen f. polyak]

Is there any history to report for a Me 109 G6 R3 with WN 20377 ?

[Charles Bavarois]

Hi Stephen,

Bf 109 G-6/R3 WNr. 20.377 damaged 16. Jan 1944 at Frosione/Italy
bellylanding after combat with Spitfires
1./NAGr. 1, Ofw. Kurt Holstein wia
Wreck was later found by British at Aquililla airfield

HTH

Carl

[veltro]

Just a short note to amend the Italian names in Charles' usual excellent post:

Frosione = Frosinone

Aquililla = Aquila (?) or L'Aquila (the latter seems too far from the place of the crash landing, provided it happened near the combat area...)

[Charles Bavarois]

Ferdinando,

thank you very much for your kind words.
Of course you're right, it is "Frosinone", to be exact: "Frosinone area".
Holstein was heavily wounded and taken to field-hospital 200 at Fiugi (or Piugi, hard to read).

Another mistake: it is 1./NAGr. 11, not 1 (I have a new WLAN- keybord and it seems to "forget" some letters sometimes ).

An additional information: tactical code was "5".

Carl

[veltro]

Originally Posted by Charles Bavarois

Holstein was heavily wounded and taken to field-hospital 200 at Fiugi (or Piugi, hard to read)

My pleasure, Charles.

BTW, the field-hospital 200 was in Fiuggi (famous thermal locality).

[Tomislav Haramincic]

Hello,

Regarding the final location of the wreck of WNr.20377, in Dr. Priens JG77 vol.4 page 2466 is a list of captured Luftwaffe Bf109s in the Mediteranean area, based on A.I.2(g) reports.
It says that WNr.20377 "black 5" was found on Aquina airfield, striped for spare parts.

regards,
Tomislav

[veltro]

Then it can be positively identified as Aquino, a locality which is in province of Frosinone...

[Nick Beale]

Here's the relevant extract from the report on "Aquina" (as the Allies spelled it!).

[harrison987]

Ha!

Well this is odd!!!!

I JUST listed the original MAIN data tag from the aircraft on eBay...here is a pic.

tag was found in a HUGE pile of tags many years ago burried in England...

Why the question? Do you have other parts from her?



Mike

[RT]

Hello Nick,

The part of report you posted, looks unfamiliar to me, what is the exact ref. of the file it comes from ???

remi