German aircraft wrecks1 El Aouiana May1943
Wrecks of a German planes at El Aouiana airport, Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943. In front lies a propeller of a BMW 132 radial engine of a Junkers Ju 52. Behind it lies an water-cooled engine (probably DB 601 of Jumo 211), and the wings of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. A damaged Henschel Hs 129B is visible in the center, just before the burned out center section of a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant transport plane. In the right background is the fuselage of a Ju 52.
- Date
- 1943-05
- Photographer / author
- ??
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 4,114 × 4,322 pixels
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