Recent content by John Vasco

3M+MH of 1./ZG 2. A close-up of the two emblems. A red hand, and the Bernbergjager on 3M+CH.

4./KG77 Junkers Ju88A-1, W. Nr. 4105. Crashed in the Starnberger See 200 m north-west of Gut Hübschenried, near Niederau, during routine domestic flight, cause unknown. FF Fw Josef Schwärzler, BO Fw Sebastian Stangl, and BS Uffz Heinz Reiser all missing.

Bf 110 E-2, W. Nr. 4401, used on towing duties.

That's not 1940. It's a Bf 109 F. The only 'F' variant flown in combat in 1940 was by Werner Mölders...

4.(F)/121 Dornier Do17P-1(3581). Crashed following collision with Ju52 of 1./KGzbV.1 shortly after take-off from Mannheim-Sandhofen. BO Oberlt Walter Riebicke, FF Uffz Heinz Zielke, and BF Uffz Hans Kramer all killed. Aircraft 100% write-off. Kramer was the wireless operator (BF = Bordfunker)...

The losses I have are for: Operations over Britain Western Front Scandinavian Front Home Front Nothing in any of them; nothing for KG 54 on that date. Inital 'digging' shows his body was washed ashore at Creil Plage, France, on 25th August 1940. So it now becomes a case of the number of days...

Can't find anything for him for 25th August 1940...

Can't find anything for front-line units on that date or either side of it. Probably a training unit.

7./KG76 Dornier Do17Z-3, F1+FR, W. Nr. 4221. Port engine disabled in attacks by Red Section of No.235 Squadron (F/L R.M.B.D. Duke-Woolley and F/O L.C. Murch) during armed reconnaissance sortie to London. Collided with a tree in crash-landing at Snape Wood Reservoir, near Wadhurst, 11.05 a.m. and...

He wrote the introduction to one of the books I co-wrote...

Thanks for sight of that. Good to put a face to a name. However, the family obituary card has got the date of death wrong. It was 18th July 1940, not 16th. Also, the obituary card says 'in einem Luftkampf' (in combat). The story I got from the Staffelkapitän of 3./210, Oberleutnant Otto...

Peter Foote and Dennis Knight negotiated for that 109 to come back to England from the States. It initially was placed at Hurn airfield, if I recall correctly...

She did a lot of work with Dennis Knight.

Know the name Perry Adams from the early 1980s; Philippa = Phiippa Hodgkiss?

7th October 1940 6./ZG26 Messerschmitt Bf110C-7, 3U+JP, W. Nr. 3418. Shot down by F/L M.L. Robinson of No.609 Squadron during escort sortie for II./KG51 attack on Yeovil and crashed at Kingston Russell Dairy Farm, Long Bredy, 7 miles south-west of Dorchester, 4.00 p.m. Possibly also that...