Aircraft Photo of WL-IKGO | Arado Ar 66C | Germany - Air Force | AirHistory.net #391247
Location
City / Area:Hengelo / Meester PJ Troelstraplein [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Netherlands
 
Photo Date:6 July 1939
Photo from:Peter de Jong Collection
Photo ID: 391247
Photo Comment

Trainer of Flieger-Ausbildungs-Regiment 12, making a flight from Hagenow to Münster, strayed into Dutch airspace and crashed in the city of Hengelo. Accompanying Gotha Go 145 WL-IKOL landed at Twenthe airfield. The wing shape confirms this as an Ar 66. Interestingly, although many Dutch people believed they would stay outside any war, a left-wing local newspaper wrote that the 22-year-old pilot acted as if he had conquered Holland on his own, telling people not to take photos of the wreck.

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