Adam its not the same fin,this one has been in the IWM for years,and yes it is off Wolfgang Schnaufer's ME110.
Adam its not the same fin,this one has been in the IWM for years,and yes it is off Wolfgang Schnaufer's ME110.
Wow now that is a great piece of history, if I was a millionare it would be hanging on my wall!!
Impressive kills, but, unfortunately, they represent just that-Kills. Such a skilled pilot must have been responsible for many an Allied airman's death...
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
The only role the 110 could survive in late in the war ( and in fact excelled in )
Any wonder when many of the G-series night fighters were fitted with the Schräge Musik guns, firing upward at an angle for shooting down bombers while passing underneath. Also some sported the Bordkanone series 37 mm auto-fed cannon, mounted in a ventral gun pod under the fuselage. A single hit from which was usually enough to destroy any Allied bomber.
talk about a "sleeper"!!!!
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
I looked into the three tail fin situation also, as it confused the hell out of me when I saw the recent auction photos. I had seen one fin in the IWM in 1998 and I knew we still had another fin in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. So how do you end up with three tail fins from one aeroplane? From memory, the answer is they are not from the same planes. Schnaufer apparently lent the plane, which the recently auctioned tail fin came from, to another pilot who was consequently shot down that night. The two fins in the IWM and the Australian War Memorial are from a second plane captured later and cut up.
Incredible.
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