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Bf 109 G-6/R6 W.Nr. 20 266 "Weisse 3" "PM+SJ", 4./JG 53, Salerno docks, 12 September 1943. Source: photo Lt. Cliff, IWM, inv. NA 6794.

Lt Harti Schmiedel was shot down 19 August 1943 and had to ditch his machine 3 km W of Salerno; he survived albeit wounded.

 

SALERNO : BRITISH TROOPS ENTER THE TOWN : FIFTH ARMY (NA 6794) Original wartime caption: A German fighter plane on a railway wagon in the docks at Salerno. Copyright: ? IWM. Original Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205521617

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