From a Do217 crash site

[Matteo La Boccia]

Past week we returned to the Do217 crash site. We find, as always, a lot of fragments, but nothing that can help us to identift serial number of aircraft.

The aircraft should be the same group that 9 sept 1943 attacked battleship ROMA of italian navy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_(1940) )with radio bomb FX-1400. In the day this aircraft was shot down (16 sept. 1943) the Do217 attacked the allied battleship in Salerno's Gulf and shot again with a FX-1400 battleship Warspite (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03) )

In the first morning we go up to the over 1000 mt of crash site.


The researchers


Some idea about these parts (This is just a selection of more relevant fragments).

1 This should be a part of BMW 801 engine. Printing: "801 510 738" What is?


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4 On the part on the right "L1/72".


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10a "SK 548433"


12 "Kbd Fl32259"


13 "Franz Lange, Berlin 126-621A Fl32958


14 "M8"


15 Part of mg131


15a This part in a old photo


16 Selbstschalter. Si legge: "Bauart Siemens Fl E 5000 04 19 - 5000 D 1 Hersteller STOTZ-KONTAKT"


16a The same part new. What is it?


17 "Nokel Bauart 126-814 A-1 Fl 32253-3"

 

[creskol]

Very nice post .. those parts and pieces are something we don't see too often. Thanks for sharing.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I think that plane was one of the best German bombers of the war.
Would love to be able to find some vintage plane parts out here in Colorado, I know of a B-25
that crashed in the mountains a while back.
Carl

 

[clovis97]

Very NICE finds!!!!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very interesting post and congratulations on your finds!
I notice there's not very much corrosion on the fragments either!

Best of luck to you,

David

 

[spitfire55]

 

[birdman]

Awesome spot to hunt!!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Interesting hunt and site! I researched a crash site but never did detect it. HH, Mike