Photo of the week
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This weekends photo.
A Bf 109 E which ended up in a ditch alongside the Waltingaleane, south of Pingjum , following a forced landing. The aircraft was hit by machine-gun fire May 12 1940 The German pilot, Leutnant H. Mertens, was uninjured.
Pingjum is a small, historic village located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân within the Friesland province of the northern Netherlands. -
This weekends extra.
Grumman Avengers being handled by "DADE", for there shipment to the UK.
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This midweeks photo.
Major Hannes Trautloft, commander of Luftwaffe Fighter Wing 54 (JG 54), in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 fighter at an airfield.
Otto Hans "Hannes" Trautloft (3 March 1912 – 12 January 1995) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and general in the postwar German Air Force. As a fighter ace, he is credited with 58 enemy aircraft shot down, including 5 in Spain, 8 on the Western Front and 45 on the Eastern Front of World War II.
