Twizzlefoot Bridge


ESSEX HISTORIC AIRCRAFT COLLECTION

On the 3rd March 1943 22.50 hrs

Junkers Ju88A-14

Werke nummer: 144328

coded 3E+DL

of

3/KG6.

Shot down by anti-aircraft fire and crashed near

Twizzlefoot Bridge

Bunham on Crouch, Essex.


Crew of Four

Pilot: Oberfeldwebel Heinz-Herbert Falke.

Observer: Unteroffizier Hans-Erich Laube.

Wireless Operator: Obergefreiter Egon-Fritz Koch.

Gunner: Obergefreiter Walter Uhlir.


Crew,all killed and now buried at Cannock Chase:


                       

Two Excavations were carried out on this aircraft during the 1980s

with both engines and undercarriage legs found along with a huge amount of

aircraft framing,skin panels and main wing spars

Parts are now in private collections


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The Excavation in 1984


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