Battle Damaged Aircraft of WW2

[Flyboy2]

This is a painting of an actual event

A Bf109 pilot's guns jammed just as he was about to fire on a flight of 3 P-51B Mustangs. Not content to let his prey go scot-free, he rams one of the enemy and brings it down. Both survived the war and were firm friends till they passed away.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

The P-51 pilot must have got out of it in a hurry then.
I would think that it would have become unstable real fast without a tail ?


Wheels

 

[Flyboy2]

Yeah for sure... There would be alot of interesting forces acting on the pilot, unless it just dropped like a piece of paper, just straight down... At any rate the -51 pilot was one lucky guy!

 

[B-17engineer]

Info on the pictures.........

"On May 25th, 1944, CPT. Joe Bennett's three man flight of P-51's ran into a formation of Bf 109Gs from III./JG 1 over Sarreguemines near the Franco-German frontier, and the American found himself locked in mortal combat with Obfhr. Hubert Heckmann, a grimly tenacious-some may say foolhardy-foe. When the guns of Heckmann's Bf 109G-6/AS yellow 15-1 jammed, the German refused to let his quarry escape. Pulling up his Messerschmitt's nose, he caught Bennett's P-51B-7-NA s/n 43-6572 codded VF-N in a mighty Daimler Benz buzz-saw that sliced off the Mustang's entire tail section. The American's aircraft madly whirled out of control, but the pilot bailed out unhurt to become a prisoner of war. Released at war's end, Bennett was eventually credited with 8.5 victories and was awarded three distinguished service crosses.

Following his collision with the American, Heckmann successfully belly-landed his Bf 109G-6/AS (Wnr. 163 796) near Botenheim. Returning to duty was his unit, he was injured in air combat with a P-38 followed by a crash landing near Compiegne, France, on August 5th, 1944. He returned to duty, later flew Me 262s with JG7, and survived the war with 5 victories."

From the book 'Flying Ace's'

Artwork by Roy Grinnell

 

[vikingBerserker]

Interesting that they became friends afterwards.

 

[barneybolac]

Feel so sorry for the poor guys in it

Heres one

any details would be appreciated

Air to air rockects from a 262.

Photo of Lt. Robert L. Main's B-24 (Close Up) ... Foto von Robert L. Lt Main 's B-24 (Close Up) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[gepp]

few more Battle Damaged Aircraft shots got nothing but respect what they went threw

 

[gepp]

few more Battle Damaged Aircraft shots got nothing but respect what they went threw

i stuffed the post up my bad 2nd time lucky.
not too sure about the spit ( Battle Damaged)

 

[Pong]

Great pics Gepp. Though it looks like the photo of the Hellcat is Post-War (Judging from the US roundels on the wing) or probably during Korea?

 

[beaupower32]

The Ju-88A-1 of I./KG806 coded M7+FH shows considerable damage inflected by RAF fighters during the Battle of Britain. The yellow bar beneath the white letter is unusal but it's significance is unknown.

 

[drgondog]

Info on the pictures.........

"On May 25th, 1944, CPT. Joe Bennett's three man flight of P-51's ran into a formation of Bf 109Gs from III./JG 1 over Sarreguemines near the Franco-German frontier, and the American found himself locked in mortal combat with Obfhr. Hubert Heckmann, a grimly tenacious-some may say foolhardy-foe. When the guns of Heckmann's Bf 109G-6/AS yellow 15-1 jammed, the German refused to let his quarry escape. Pulling up his Messerschmitt's nose, he caught Bennett's P-51B-7-NA s/n 43-6572 codded VF-N in a mighty Daimler Benz buzz-saw that sliced off the Mustang's entire tail section. The American's aircraft madly whirled out of control, but the pilot bailed out unhurt to become a prisoner of war. Released at war's end, Bennett was eventually credited with 8.5 victories and was awarded three distinguished service crosses.

Following his collision with the American, Heckmann successfully belly-landed his Bf 109G-6/AS (Wnr. 163 796) near Botenheim. Returning to duty was his unit, he was injured in air combat with a P-38 followed by a crash landing near Compiegne, France, on August 5th, 1944. He returned to duty, later flew Me 262s with JG7, and survived the war with 5 victories."

From the book 'Flying Ace's'

Artwork by Roy Grinnell

Bennett received three Distinguished Flying Crosses - not DSC's. I think JC Meyer was only 8th AF fighter pilot to receive 3 DSC's.

 

[drgondog]

i stuffed the post up my bad 2nd time lucky.
not too sure about the spit ( Battle Damaged)

That looks like JG2 Egon Meyer with Miss Quachita. He was killed 30 days later by Walter Gresham 358FS/355FG on 2 March.

 

[piet]

Nex to Miss Quachita is...Heinz ''Pritzl" Bär is wearing his favourite US leather flying jacket, his wingman Oberfeldwebel Leo Schuhmacher is standing to his right

piet.

 

[Ivan1GFP]

That carrier crash is by a Bearcat, not a Hellcat.

- Ivan.

 

[Pong]

Oh, thanks for the correction. I didn't notice the wheel well and the four guns.

 

[Josh64]

Info on the pictures.........

"On May 25th, 1944, CPT. Joe Bennett's three man flight of P-51's ran into a formation of Bf 109Gs from III./JG 1 over Sarreguemines near the Franco-German frontier, and the American found himself locked in mortal combat with Obfhr. Hubert Heckmann, a grimly tenacious-some may say foolhardy-foe. When the guns of Heckmann's Bf 109G-6/AS yellow 15-1 jammed, the German refused to let his quarry escape. Pulling up his Messerschmitt's nose, he caught Bennett's P-51B-7-NA s/n 43-6572 codded VF-N in a mighty Daimler Benz buzz-saw that sliced off the Mustang's entire tail section. The American's aircraft madly whirled out of control, but the pilot bailed out unhurt to become a prisoner of war. Released at war's end, Bennett was eventually credited with 8.5 victories and was awarded three distinguished service crosses.

Following his collision with the American, Heckmann successfully belly-landed his Bf 109G-6/AS (Wnr. 163 796) near Botenheim. Returning to duty was his unit, he was injured in air combat with a P-38 followed by a crash landing near Compiegne, France, on August 5th, 1944. He returned to duty, later flew Me 262s with JG7, and survived the war with 5 victories."

From the book 'Flying Ace's'

Artwork by Roy Grinnell

The P-51s in this incident were from the 4th FG right? I remember hearing this story from a WWII Veteran I met once who was a crew chief with the 4th FG. I wish I could think of his name, but it was a very brief meeting about 4 years ago.

 

[drgondog]

Nex to Miss Quachita is...Heinz ''Pritzl" Bär is wearing his favourite US leather flying jacket, his wingman Oberfeldwebel Leo Schuhmacher is standing to his right

piet.

You are absolutely right.

 

[drgondog]

The P-51s in this incident were from the 4th FG right? I remember hearing this story from a WWII Veteran I met once who was a crew chief with the 4th FG. I wish I could think of his name, but it was a very brief meeting about 4 years ago.

Yes

 

[Orion_vp31]

Some unbelievable shots in here!

 

[ThunderThud]

very interesting pics!