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This is a single experimental FW 190 V18, it has never been at our airport. It also has a big hole for armament.

I will check it for traces of an outside plate and will get a better picture of the blade cutouts. Maybe it's a Do 217M, because Schwäbisch Hall was the center for integration and testing of Hs 293 and Fritz X.

Maybe a Do 217 N-2 ?

There are traces of plates, but they are missing. I looked for stamped numbers but without success. I will compare the VDM pictures with the data book, maybe the positions of the plates are identical.

Thanks, we will check it. For a He 177 the shape looks strange and there's no hole, we thought of an US plane, because inside there are some color chips that look like interior green.

Hello, we've got this spinner in our airfield museum and we don't know the origin. We believe it might be from a Mustang, as we have no german WW2 plane with a 4-bladed spinner in this color and shape and we don't think about a Hawker Typhoon. It was found at Schwäbisch Hall/Hessental airfield...

EZ2 right below.

This part (FL 26601) belongs to "Zielflugempfänger EZ 2", a navigation aid used in multiple engine planes. It was used since 1937.

That would be very kind, thank you !

Thank you, the german newspaper article in the second link is from M.S.Koziol, a founding member of our museum.

Hello Gary, this is very interesting. This aircraft (711) was build in Schwäbisch Hall and was flown to the US forces in Frankfurt by Hans Fay. It was the first 262 in flyable condition in allied hands. It was test flown in Wright Field by Russell E. Schleeh and Walter J. "Mac" McAuley, Jr. who...

Hi, I just found this : Stalingrad looked wrong for me, the big buildings were too close to an airfield there : https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Dornier/AufklGr/pages/Dornier-Do-17P1-1.(F)AufklGr-Nacht-emblem-0A.html

Right - "über" here means "doing it by using" - please leave the German language to us Germans, we know it since birth... ;):pilotsalute:

Sammler is the German translation for the Latin word "Accumulator" - so the Bordsammler is an on-board battery pack that you can use (Anlassvorgang über Bordsammler), if no external starter car is available ("Anlassvorgang über Außenbord-Stromquelle"). Greetings from Germany Michael

No, that's not true. "Karaya - exotic Ferrytale" is a german song played in the spare time of the 9./JG52 - they didn't had many records available, so they played it very often. So everybody in the squadron knew the word. When Hermann Graf, squadron leader of 9./JG52 forgot his valid radio code...