Showing posts with label Brunnthal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brunnthal. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Junkers Ju 88 G-6 Brunnthal, KG 76 im Osten, Wintertarnung



Ju 88 G-6, Si 104, He 111 H's, Abstellplatz/Schattenplatz Brunnthal south of München, Summer 1945.
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Source: Life picture via M-AH/TOCH. More on Brunnthal on this blog here

Interested readers can find a recently published and much more in-depth feature on the aircraft at Brunnthal on Matthias Bendull's nachtjagd-research blog. Go to http://nachtjagd-research.blogspot.com. This is a first summary with more details and photographs to be added over time.

Below; currently on Ursula Pfund's Ebay sales site. KG 76 Ju 88 A-4 Schneetarnung. Note the uncamouflaged replacement starboard engine and in the bottom pic, the white prop blades.








Photo commentary via Paul Higgins; " ..the three images from Ursula Pfund's Ebay sales site show (top to bottom) a Ju88 A-5 (no under-cowling blisters, no blistered rear canopy and narrow propellor blades/smaller early-style spinners); the second image I believe is the same aircraft in close-up, and the last image is an unusual Ju88 A-4 from KG 77 with the (R) propellor blade (left side as we look at it) definitely the broader style of the A-4 but the (R) blade seemingly the earlier, narrow blade but with an A-4 spinner... a rather unusual combination..." Well spotted Paul ..and thanks for your detailed caption

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Ju-290 A-7,W.Nr.0110191,9V + AB, FAGr.5



Undoubtedly one of the most photographed machines of Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 was this Junkers Ju 290 A-7, W.Nr. 0191, Verbandskennzeichen " 9V + AB " which had been assigned to the Gruppenstab during May 1944 (Kennzeichen KR+LV) and was probably the Stabsflugzeug  of the Gruppenkommandeur Hptm. (later Major) Fischer. It was damaged during a strafing raid (durch Tiefflieger) on its Abstellplatz (Brunnthal, south of Munich) the following September (probably 10 September) some time after FAGr. 5 had moved back to Germany from their Atlantic operations base on the French coast at Mont de Marsan. Thereafter the aircraft was apparently used as a source of spares as the photos show a number of fuselage parts are missing and the aircraft appears in no FAGr. 5 Flugbücher after this time. (p.189 Günther Ott, "Die grossen Dessauer" ) At war's end an explosive charge was set off in the cockpit.  Note the Schräge Musik- equipped Ju G-6 in the background. Another nice view of the front of this aircraft appears on p.193 of Günther Ott, "Die grossen Dessauer" ..





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More Ju 290 posts on this blog
http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Junkers%20Ju%20290

Aircraft found at Brunnthal
http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/latest-issue-of-jet-prop-410.html