Messerschmitt Me Bf 110 Under Wing Panel
Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:27 am
This panel arrived last week from Transylvania.
It is the R(echts) Starboard under wing panel from a Bf 110 E-3 - Werk No. 2346.
So far I have found out the following.
She was built in Feb/Mar 41 as a block of 35 by GWF (Gothaer WaggonFabrik / Gotha). One of only 200 E-3's.
Suffered 10% damage on 05th Aug 1941 at a place called Mozhaysk - west of Moscow. When flown with the 2(F). AukFlGr 33 by Uffz Grasse - presumably as part of the Barbarossa advance on Moscow.
Item 141
http://www.airwar.ru/history/av2ww/a...bf110loss.html
Suffered 60% damage in Russia on 21st Feb 1942.
Lost at Ploesti on 24th Aug 1944.
The wing has numerous bullet holes - but they are all small ( ca. 5mm dia.) so I am sure they are post war plinking rather than battle damage.
The wing has an in service patch on the leading edge.
The black image is from the 1942 Vultee investigation of a captured Me Bf 110.
It is the R(echts) Starboard under wing panel from a Bf 110 E-3 - Werk No. 2346.
So far I have found out the following.
She was built in Feb/Mar 41 as a block of 35 by GWF (Gothaer WaggonFabrik / Gotha). One of only 200 E-3's.
Suffered 10% damage on 05th Aug 1941 at a place called Mozhaysk - west of Moscow. When flown with the 2(F). AukFlGr 33 by Uffz Grasse - presumably as part of the Barbarossa advance on Moscow.
Item 141
http://www.airwar.ru/history/av2ww/a...bf110loss.html
Suffered 60% damage in Russia on 21st Feb 1942.
Lost at Ploesti on 24th Aug 1944.
The wing has numerous bullet holes - but they are all small ( ca. 5mm dia.) so I am sure they are post war plinking rather than battle damage.
The wing has an in service patch on the leading edge.
The black image is from the 1942 Vultee investigation of a captured Me Bf 110.