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Deutsch: North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (s/n 42-103437), Italien, 1944. Zu erkennen ist vorne, unterhalb des Führerkanzel folgenden Aufschrift, welche nicht abschließend einwandfrei zu identiifizieren war:
  • PILOT- LT.N.M. HARRISS -
  • C/C- SGT.T.F. SUAREZ -
  • U.S.ARMY P-51C-5-N -
  • SERIAL AF42-103437 -
Bei der vermutlichen Notlandung (Bauchlandung) dieser P-51C-5 war das hintere Rumpf- u. Leitwerkssegment abgebrochen, die zugehörige USAAF Fighter Group ist (noch) unbekannt. Das Kornfeld war zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme um das Flugzeugwrack herum hoch aufgewachsen. Es sind keine Schleifspuren zu erkennen, so dass die Notlandung ein oder zwei Monaten früher erfolgt sein dürfte. Der Pilot konnte sich am Boden - eventuell leicht verletzt - aus der Maschine retten. Die beiden deutschen Luftwaffen-(Ober-)Feldwebel mit "Khaki-Uniformen" sind namentlich nicht bekannt. Vermutlich handelt es sich nicht um fliegendes Personal, sondern um Angehörige eines Kommando- oder Geschwaderstabes. Der linke (Ober-)Feldwebel hat offensichtlich am Tag der Aufnahme das EK II verliehen bekommen, welches nur an diesem Tag offen getragen wurde. Das Foto dürfte in Mittel-Italien im Juli/August 1944 entstanden sein. Siehe: Italienfeldzug (Zweiter Weltkrieg).
English: North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (s/n 42-103437), Italy, 1944. The following inscription can be recognised at the front, below the cockpit, which could not be conclusively identified:

PILOT- LT.N.M. HARRISS - C/C- SGT.T.F. SUAREZ - U.S.ARMY P-51C-5-N - SERIAL AF42-103437 -

In the presumed emergency landing (belly landing) of this P-51C-5, the rear fuselage and tail segment was broken off, the associated USAAF Fighter Group is (still) unknown. The cornfield had grown up around the aircraft wreckage at the time the photo was taken. No drag marks are visible, so the emergency landing was probably made one or two months earlier. The pilot was able to escape from the aircraft on the ground, possibly slightly injured. The names of the two German Luftwaffe (senior) sergeants with "khaki uniforms" are not known. Presumably they were not flying personnel, but members of a command or squadron staff. The (senior) sergeant on the left was obviously awarded the EK II on the day the photo was taken, which was only worn openly on that day. The photo was probably taken in central Italy in July/August 1944. See: Italian Campaign (Second World War).
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Source Nachlass meines Onkels E. Lück - Estate of my uncle E. Lück
Author unbekannt - never published by name of a photographer

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