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This post has been edited by seeker on November 18, 2011 08:43 pm

Nice photo indeed. It was also published in Aripi Romanesti during the war. The description on the back is very interesting.
Radu

This particular picture is in the area of where Deva Airfield is located,
between the railway line and the Mures river.

Kevin in Deva.

Pics from the set are from 1941 so i guess this one is from the same year

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Tulcea-Rumanien-rus...#ht_1771wt_1369

i think the place can be located considering the milestone.

muggs

Its great of having posted this wreckage pic. Given I will
be able to identify the aircraft type, I will then have a
positive ID on the crew. The dilema is that on
the suspected day 2 x VVS AR-2 from 45 SBAP crashed
near Tulcea and one DB-3F from 40 BAP VMF crashed
at Tulcea. If the wing is not upsidedown then it looks
rather like an A-20 wreck....though A-20s where not in
service in Russia at that time.

If is upsidedown, given the cowl flaps and vents
as well the wing span it may well be an AR-2 or a
DB-3

Maybe someone can ID the wreck

Alex

This post has been edited by yugit on November 28, 2011 06:05 pm

seeker

You have a point, what this mile stone reading means anyways ?

Alex

seeker

You have a point, what this mile stone reading means anyways ?

Alex

I don't know, it's not mile 149 for shure. But can be 149 meters from something s km 0. Maybe somebody that has conection with Danube navigators.

Seeker I believe you may be right, it may
be water nav.or similar purpose , I would
be surprised if it would exist today.

Alex

This post has been edited by yugit on November 28, 2011 06:08 pm

It can't be an indication of water level since those usually have a ruler on them to measure the water level. It's most likely a distance marker.

143.9 km means about 80 nautical miles. That is near Galati, not Tulcea, according to this: http://www.afdj.ro/cote/bhsemn.pdf (see the second page of the pdf file)

I think someone from Tulcea ( or Galati ) could be able to identify the area in relation to the buildings from the opposite shore aswell, i think at least a church can be seen.

Victor, sailors are working with miles not km, so maybe it's miles indicator.
My father was in the navy some years ago.

Victor

I hope someone can accurately determine the location
if Tulcea , Tulcea area or Galati area, that would narrow
down my estimates as into the crew.

Like you stated is the correct scale. The way it looks
is hard to determine if that's Tulcea. Additionally
if someone can ID the wreck , I would then get a
closer estimate on the location.

Alex

Another pointer would be the buildings in the background, looks like at least 3 churches and the prominent hill, churches do not tend to move location, so it might be possible to triangulate the location from those features.

Kevin in Deva.

The back side has a garbl.second digit near the 4 and something which can
be the begining of a 3 rather than 0 because in 1940 there were
no Russian planes shot down . If the year is 1943 then the wreck
is an this of an A-20 of the 36 MTAP whose crash site matching this
location,plane which departed Gelenjik to attack either Constanza
or the Radar site at Mahmudia. I am still in doubts that this is an A-20.

This post has been edited by yugit on November 29, 2011 01:11 pm