The geographical coordinates correspond to the beach of San Vito lo Capo, Trapani, Sicily.
To tell the truth, at first I had thought of a plane shot down in that area during the WWII and, in an initial research, I had found some of them.
For example:
12/03/1943 Beaufort II DD928 39 SQN RAF Shot...
W.N.F. - Bf 109 F-4 - W.Nr. 13108 - A/c lost - 8./JG 5, Ltn. Jakob August "Jockel" Norz , unhurt. 05/03/1943 SW of Eyna Guba. (RU) Sources SIG Norway and Kracker LW Archive - Emergency landing after air battle with Il-2. In that occasion Norz shot down 2 Russian aircraft, a P-40 and an Il-2...
I had hypothesized that it could be the S / n 44-76945 on the basis of some details.
1) In the list of inspection stamps found in:
https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/downloads/aair_stamps.pdf
there are also other stamps that closely resemble the one shown in Emmerich's photo and which refer...
It could be:
Douglas C-47B-35-DK Skytrain S/n 44-76945 (MSN 16529/33277)
delivered to USAAF 14 May 45;
delivered to Royal Air Force 14 May 45 as Dakota IV, serial KN624 at Dorval, Montreal;
Air Command, South East Asia 5 Jun 45;
No.300 Group 19 Jul 45, radio call sign VM-YCQ;
India 29 aug 46...
According to information obtained from the MACR (Missing Air Crew Report), the aircraft had been hit by anti-aircraft fire in the area of Ljubljana in Slovenia, before reaching the target.
It was observed leaving behind a trail of smoke, two of the engines were not working and another...
Io sono della provincia di Udine, mi occupo principalmente di aerei caduti in Friuli durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, mi sono iscritto nel 2019 ma non ho mai partecipato al forum se non negli ultimi tempi. E'un gran bel forum, semplice da usare (intendo nel senso di gestire allegati ecc.) e...
Thank you very much, Wurger.
I am truly amazed at the immediate response.
Relating to: Gerät-Nr. 8-8881 3-03 Hersteller: DBU-Gerätebau, St. Ludwig / Elsaß, the St. Ludwig lettering was damaged.
I found other plates with 8-888 on the Internet, also from a Me 262 but no one said to what it was...
I could find only these five possible occurrences for Aug 6, 1944.
1) Bf 109G-6 WNr 166010 Stkz KW+YJ "Schwarze (Black) 21 + I"
FhjFw Rudolf Helmut Schindler, unit: 8/JG-53, (not JG 3 or 300).
KIA (killed) 6 August, 1944 during aerial combat with a P-51 near Bleckede about 70 km south east of...
For some months I have been trying to identify a Ju 88 that crashed, north east of Verona, Italy at the end of 1943. Research carried out on the crash site led to the discovery of many fragments, all of them small in size, which made it possible to understand the type of aircraft and, from the...
I'm sorry, I was only able to find some information about the crew but absolutely nothing about the plane. I searched both Fold 3 and Joe Baugher's lists but with no results.
Name Eugene R Anspach
From New Jersey
Death January 1, 1945
War World War II
ID O-1179765
Rank Second Lieutenant
Branch...