Daily eBay scan - San-Ju travelling through Norway

Another interesting batch of photographs are currently at offer to the highest bidder, a series of photographs showing glimpses from the travels of a Ju 52 from a medical unit through Norway ending up in a snowy Alakurtti in Finnland.

Showing airfield buildings and even what must be a very rare bird in Norway at this time, namely a camouflaged DC-2 these are small historical gems.

Please comment my annotations, as I am unsure of the location of some of these.

Stop over at the airfield at Trondheim - Værnes?

Is this photograph taken in a Finnish airfield? The tower on the corner of a large hangar in a snow covered field give that association.

Note the camouflaged nose of a DC-2 in this photograph taken in Helsinki as far as I can determine from the building in the background

At the airfield at Alakurtti

Daily eBay scan - Caproni Ca 310 ´507´ at Stavanger-Sola

As part of a larger collection of Fallschirmjäger photographs obviously sourced from an album, the seller 100-years-of-history has a couple of really crisp photographs of the Caproni Ca 310 with callsign ´507´. Having seen a lot of Caproni photographs through the years there is really nothing new here, but the quality of the prints looks to be very good indeed as a basis for detailed research.

Caproni Ca 310 callsign ´507´ as found by the invading German forces at Sola-Stavanger on April 9th 1940

A selected group of flying personnel and paratroopers posing in front of Caproni Ca 310 callsign ´507´ at Sola-Stavanger on April 9th 1940

The rest of the photographs in the selection give an interesting view of the preparations and inflight photographs of the Ju 52 transporters bringing the Fallschirmjäger towards Norway and Denmark on April 9th 1940.

Paratroopers preparing for the invasion. Nothing very military about the suitcase they seem to be packing.

Inflight photograph of Ju 52´s en route to Norway and/or Denmark

Daily eBay scan - Prayer card with link to Norway

The first post for April on the date Germany invaded Norway and Denmark in 1940. This time a small eBay find with a link to Norway, a so-called Sterbebild or Prayer card.

Oberfeldwebel Jörg Zehetmayr (or Georg Zehetmeyer as his name is registered as by the Generalquartiermeister) was killed when he flew a He 111H-6 of Wettererkündungsstaffel 6, Werknummer 4358 coded D7 + RN, into the mountainside of Tømmernesaksla near Svartnes in Balsfjord on a transfer flight from Værnes near Trondheim to Banak.

The Flugzeugführer Zehetmayr and the Bordmaschinist Alios Waindl was badly burnt and killed in the crash, while the Bordfunker Werner Frevert was wounded and receoved medical treatment from the doctor onboard the Bernhard von Tschirschky supply ship - Luftsicherungsschiff.

He was transferred to the hospital at Tromsö for further medical treatment.

Remains of the aircraft were still visible on the mountainside when Kjell Sørensen visited and photographed the site in 2004.

Daily ebay scan - Bf 109 Schwarze 9 from III./JG 5

Some finds on ebay.de is just not worth the money - and hopefully no one will be tempted to  use EUR 70 minimum on the auction of the following photograph, even if it show a spectacular sideview with interesting camouflage:

In my opinion this is (and the seller also indicate this) a post war copy of a well known and published photograph.

You should rather spend your hard earned cash on one of the books in Eric Mombeek's excellent series on JG 5, or even by the book on camouflage and markings on fighter and fighter bomber aircraft authored by Kjetil Aakra and myself:

Daily ebay scan - Trondheim harbour?

I got a tip about the item shown below currently for sale by the seller bobbau-militaria on ebay.de - with a question about the localization. After reviewing this item and the other photographs currently on auction by the same seller, I believe them to show scenes from Trondheim harbour, the main focus in this small series being a He 115 from Küstenfliegergruppe 506:

Heinkel He 115 from Kü.Fl.Gr.506