Messerschmitt Bf110 downed by RAF fighters over Lulworth in Dorset during a Battle of Britain in August 1940

The text is copied from culture24 and published by Richard Moss at 08 September 2014

'Archaeologists find remains of German Messerchmitt downed during Battle of Britain dogfight

The remains of a Messerchmitt Bf 110, shot down during a Battle of Britain dogfight, have been unearthed during a dig at Lulworth in Dorset.

The graves of Luftwaffe personnel Gunter Beck and Georg Lammel
at Portland Royal Naval cemetery

An archaeological dig at a Ministry of Defence site near Lulworth in Dorset has uncovered evidence of a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter that was downed by RAF fighters during the Battle of Britain in August 1940. 

Large quantities of material, including fragments of propeller, Daimler Benz engines, ammunition, parts of the perspex canopy and other elements were uncovered by a team working at the Lulworth Ranges as part of Operation Nightingale, a groundbreaking initiative that uses field archaeology to aid the recovery of service personnel injured in conflict.

Italian documentary of Luftwaffe equipment - Part 2 (Arado Ar234; Messerschmitt Bf110, Me210/410; DornierDo335)

"Arado Ar234 - Italin documentary"

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"Messerschmitt Bf109 Seconda guerra mondiale"

Set of videos - Battle scenes, Butcher Bird, Guncamera, Der Adler, Training 1939



"Luftwaffe - Battle Scenes" 

"Messerschmitt Me 109, Me 110, Focke Wulf 190 Guncamera"

"Captured Focke-Wulf Fw190"

"The Night Ghost of St Trond" - the terror of the night sky

Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer family home in Calw 1940

When in 1939, young Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer began serving in the Luftwaffe, no one imagined that man just joined the Luftwaffe came the terror of the night sky over western Europe. - 'The Night Ghost of St Trond'.

Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer

Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe

Schnaufer was born in a Stuttgart on the 16th February 1922. He was to be the eldest of four children (three boys and a girl). From September 1938 Heinz was an educated by Nazi centres NPEA - Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt (National Political Educational Establishment) at Backnang and later in Potsdam. These training centers set themselves the target of training of the future elite of the Third Reich. As part of the training, Schnaufer was directed into the ranks of the Luftwaffe in November 1939 in order to train him to the rank of pilot-officer. In 1941, he completed his flying training.   In November 1941, on completion of their flying training, they were posted to II./NJG 1 at Stade, near Hamburg, later transferring with the same unit to Saint-Trond, Belgium.

Set of Luftwaffe photos - a lot of desert camouflage examples

"Winter is Coming" - set of Luftwaffe photos

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Why the role of these units were so important? In 1944, the weight of bombs dropped by the Allies on Reich reached the highest level of 993 000 tons, while the Luftwaffe dropped vain 9334 tonnes. Allied average tonnage monthly dropped for the year (77 743) exceeded the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Britain within six years of war (75 655).

Oberfeldwebel Willi Frös of 5./ZG 26 just returned from operational flight and stand on wing root of his Messerschmitt Me410B-1 at Königsberg-Neumark in May 1944 to be greeted by his ground crew. Visible is the Zielfernrohr 4A telescopic sight in the armoured windscreen.  Frös is holding a bandoleer of flare  of cartridges in his hand. It is believed he accounted for five Viermots shot down.

An Messerschmitt Me210A-1 of ZG 26 seen at Diepholz, in Germany, in ugust 1943 following its return to the Reich from North Africa. The aircraft has been adapted for its new home defence role by the fitting of under wing twin 21 cm WGr mortar tubes intended for breaking up enemy bomber Pulks.

Set of Luftwaffe warbirds pictures

Dornier Do217 N

Set of Luftwaffe warbirds pictures

up: Dornier Do17 Z-10 NJG 101
down: Dornier 215 B-5NJG 2 with radar FuG 202, May 1942

Set of pictures with Luftwaffe warbirds and stuff.

Messerschmitt Me 110s fly over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1940

Captured Luftwaffe film "Actual Battle Scenes"

Lehrbildreihe Me 110C

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Lehrbildreihe Me110 C

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