German aircraft crashed in airfield south Italy
Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:00 am
This aircraft was shot down in the Magorno airfield (a temporary airfield build from Luftwaffe in the mountains near Montesano sulla Marcellana - do you know something about this airfield?)
The aircraft was shot down during a allied bombing and the pilot was buried in the airfiled. I have no other information. Someone can help us to identify it? Many thanks!
The place
Gerardo searching
Vincenzo and Daniele
Alluminium
Fuselage fragments
Alluminium
What are those?
Electric part
What is it?
Bullets 13 mm
Perhaps this is not same age....
The aircraft was shot down during a allied bombing and the pilot was buried in the airfiled. I have no other information. Someone can help us to identify it? Many thanks!
The place
Gerardo searching
Vincenzo and Daniele
Alluminium
Fuselage fragments
Alluminium
What are those?
Electric part
What is it?
Bullets 13 mm
Perhaps this is not same age....
Re: German aircraft crashed in airfield south Italy
Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:15 am
I am reasonably certain the circular item with the hex head insert is what we would call a "freeze plug" which goes in the side of a water-cooled engine... they're very evident on DB601s and 605s, and I believe may be found on Jumo 211s and 213s, but am not 100% certain on that. All I feel confident in saying is that it appears to be an airframe with a liquid cooled engine and at least one MG 131 mounted; candidate aircraft would include the Bf 109G-6 if it is known to be single engined, and Me 110, Me 210, Me 410 and Ju 88 if it's multi-engined.
Lynn