Date: 12th August 1940
Time: 13.00 hours.
Unit: 2 Staffel./Jagdgeschwader 52
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1
Werke/Nr.3367
Coded: 14 + (Red)
Location: Berwick Rail Crossing, Mays Farm, Selmeston, Sussex, England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Leo Zaunbrecher. - Wounded.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from an aerodrome near the coast of France at mid-day. While flying at 19,500 ft. attacked in the rear by a Spitfire, the controls and petrol tank being shot away, so the pilot forced landed.
Markings: on the port side there was a Red Devil with a bow and arrow, also a red triangle with two red rings below the machine gun port on the port side of the fuselage. 14 + in red.The aircraft was fitted with an armoured bulkhead.
Captured wounded, the young pilot Leo Zaunbrecher. (Net).
The “Red” 14 under close examination and guard after the forced landing(IWM).
Close up of the cockpit area (Saunders).
“Red” 14 on display to the public, location not known (Net).
Researched and compiled by Melvin Brownless, with special thanks to Pat Burgess Collection, Andy Saunders, and the IWM for use of images. Updated March 2015