Fotoalbum WWII - Part II

View from the downward reargunners position of a Do17z. The bomb racks are open.

One of the last pictures from my grandfather June 1940. He is the second from the left, walking with his crew to the aircraft in Cormeilles en Vexin (France). The other crew members died only a few weeks later in a dogfight .

Adolf Genth in 1939. Born in South Africa, 27th of July 1894, died 29 th of July 1940 overhead England.

The following pictures were taken by my father in 1944/45. He made a flight training with the JG101 in Pau (France) and served later for the JG 3 (Udet) and III JG 26 (12 Staffel). He finally was shot down by a british Hawker Tempest at march 7th 1945 flying a FW190 D9 in the vicinity  of Enschede (Netherlands) and survived hardly wounded.

Karl Georg Genth in 1944

Forced landing of my father (first left), with an Arado 96 B trainer. The nose seemed to be a good place to deposit steel- helmets (Wels - Austria).

Formation of Ar96B

Short before take off .....

Again a formation Ar96

Starting an Ar96B by hand.

Fw 58 ' Weihe' short before take off at Wels (Austria) my father received his basic flight trainings there (6th July 43 - 4th December 1943). Here it was also tested, for which kind of pilot he had the best possibilities (fighter,bomber ...)

Should be the same aircraft, only the window is opened now ...

Fw 58 overhead the landing cross ..

Buecker 133 Jungmeister ready for the pilot .... This type was used for aerobatic training.

A postcard, but nice Buecker 133 in flight

The following section is dedicatet to the french Dewoitine 520 fighter, which was used a a trainer by the german Luftwaffe. This aircraft was not simple to handle and a lot of crashes happened with the unexpierienced german pilots. The JG 101 in Pau (France) has some of these aircrafts and the commander of these unit was in 1944 Hauptmann Walter Nowotny - a famous german fighter ace who was killed later in a Me262 fighter after loosing one engin at low altitude during a dogfight.

Dewoitine 520 with german markings.

Time to relax, in the backround Ar 96 and Dewoitine 520 at Pau Nord 1944 in the forground to the right my father.