File:Propeller hub from Junkers Ju 88A-4 (WkNr. 140099 - 4D+FP) (50495283777).jpg
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English: These are parts from a Ju 88A-4 of 6.KG 30 based at Varel in Northern Germany. On 14th March 1944 it was one of about 25 aircraft from the airfield to take part in an attack on London as part of the three month long ‘Operation Steinbock’ effectively a mini-blitz on London. Having routed to London via East Anglia, it was planned to return via Beachy Head on the South coast of England, but 4D+FP was shot down by a Mosquito night-fighter and crashed at Backwood in Surrey at 11.05pm with the loss of all crew.
The crew were:- Unteroffizier Gerhard Straube – Pilot Unteroffizier Alfred Schiffmann – Observer Unteroffizier Hans Sing – Radio operator and Gefreiter Heinz Wende – Gunner. The Mosquito was NF.XIX ‘MM651’ from 96 Squadron based at West Malling. Its experienced crew was made up of Flight Lieutenant Norman Sidney Head DFC, the pilot, and Flying Officer Arthur Andrews DFC, the navigator. The pair had worked together as a night-fighter crew over a long period and had begun on Defiants in 1943. Both were awarded the DFC. On this night they would also shoot down a second German bomber. MM651 survived the war and was later sold to the Swedish Air Force. The crash site was excavated in June 1992 with some of what was recovered, including an engine, going to the now closed Booker Aircraft Museum. This display includes an undercarriage leg, propeller hub and other smaller components. Wings Museum, Balcombe, West Sussex, UK 20th August 2020 |
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| Author | Alan Wilson |
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