Hinrik

Restored P-35 Radom This gun has interesting history behind it. It has always been called the "Spy pistol" I got the gun in 1996. I started to trace the previous owners. (This is possible in a small country like Iceland) and I got in touch with an old man that says he owned the gun in 1946! He is very secretive about me asking him questions, but does admit, that the gun was in the hands of a Dannish Cook, that was the cook of a German family, living in the remote fishing village Isafjordur, in 1940?s. The old man claims the woman was in the NSDAP. And that there was a radio transceiver in the house! The gun is a very early Polish production, with a low serial number of 18.0XX out of about 400.000 built. Unfrtunatelly the gun has been reblued and restored, but it shoots fine! Hinrik

Please note, that the fire control group on the P40N M2 gun is just there for display. This particular M2 fire control assy comes from yet another B-17 that crashed into a Glacier here in 1944, an is now finnally "coming from the Ice" I need to mount a "rescue ops" next summer, but there are at least 3 M2 guns still at the crash site. Problem is, it takes about 4 hours of heavy hiking to goto the site, and having a 30 kg (60 lbs) gun in your backpack is not the ideal situations! Hinrik

ANM2 .50 cal dateplate on P40N gun. This was the third gun in the right hand wing.

Left hand side of my modest little cabinet. Bottom M2 .50 cal comes from a B-17 that crashed on ferry flight to Iceland, 7th may 1943. The gun came into the nets of an Icelandic fishing ship in 1994. I tracked down the crew of the ship, and the 1st shipmate gave me the longitudte / latitude, were they got the B-17?s wreck. I cross referanced that with my WWII crash files, and came up with a B17 that was on ferry flight to Iceland. They were most likely lost ( freash navigator from school) and made an emergency landing next to a convoy of UK ships heading to Canada. They were initally shoot at by the ships!! They crashlanded in the high waves, 8 out of the 10 men crew were rescued under hard circumstanses. HMS Onslaught and HMS Faulkner rescued the men. In 1997 I meet one of the survivors, the Flight Engineer, Don Atkinson, He gave me the life vest, he was wearing when the B-17 crashed. The crew called "the aircraft Big Moose" in the name of there tall Captain, James Musser. I have now got in contact with 5 out of the 8 men rescued. Look at the big color photo next to the gun, that is Elroy Humphreys, the B-17 bombadire. Other guns: Top ANM2 from a P-39 Aircobra that was in airbattle with a German plane 1942. 2nd from top: turret gun from a crashed RAF Hudson of the 269th squadron. 3rd from top: a rare MG-15 Luftwaffe MG, sadly this is the only gun I dont know the history off. Hope you like this little collection of interesting MG?s Hinrik

Hi guys, Here are some of my Aircraft MG?s All but one, have history behind them.... This photo...top...ANM2 .30 cal from a crashed RAF Hudson, of the 269th Squadron, which sunks a few U-boats. Was recoverd from the wreck by an Icelandic Doctor, educated in Nazi Prussia. He was often called an Icelandic Nazi, but I doubt that to be true. 2 guns in middle are Lewis 1918?s WWI guns, both used on Icelandic fishing ships in WWII as AA defence against Luftwaffe planes. Bottom .50 cal is a nice gun from rare P-40N Warhawk fighterplane that crashed in Vestmannaeyjar islands, 1944. The Pilot, Major Mark J. Mourne, was the squadron leader of the 33rd. Fighter squadron. I have some documents with his signature. I mainly collect items with history behind them...and I really go "out of my way" to track them down. The old saying in the USA....buy the item not history...does not apply in Iceland...there are so few collectors here..hence no people trying to scam you. Regards

Thanks guys, I should of known better.... I am contacting TW to send this back. Will get a nice dagger insted, I hope. Regards Hinrik

Brian.... Why do you say "yikes Wittann" ? He is positve its real..but then again I was the one paying $750 for this EKI................. Regards Hinrik

Thanks Alejandro and welcome to this forum. I think Micheal and many of the other U-boat collectors here would be very interested in seeing photos of your collection. Maybe you can post some in the thread I sent you? Regards Hinrik

Needle. Sorry for poor quality of photo, I will have to take better once when back home next time.

The "1939" date

I read somewhere that the "L/54" makers mark should be below the catch. Is this true?

Engraved on back in very small script: "Meine ehre heisst treue" "Stefan Richter" "17.9.42."

Hi guys, Here are some photos of an EKI that I recently got from Thomas Wittmann. Some guys on the www.germandaggers.com forum did not like it, some did. What is your opinion? I have found out that there was a Stefan Richter in the SS and am trying to get his files. Hinrik

Guys, I am member of the Aviation History Club here and I am rebuilding the bike in our hangar that has a very nice workshop with lathe?s, drill presses, tools, cleaning cabinet, sand and seperate bead blasting cabinets, paint booth etc. which has made the work more easy. I am actually a Curator for a Aviation / War museum project. My collection of items related to WWII-Iceland ranges from tie pins to stationary engines. Otto, I have some friends (girlfriends) in RJ and Sao Paulo. I am trying to learn. Still trying to find a good CD to learn Brazilian Portugese. What do you collect? Here is a photo of a very hard to find NOS part, the original Wartime Canvas handlebar grip. Note the small black adjustment screw on the throttle body, I have actually gone through the trouble of beadblasting and gun bluing many of these small parts! Lot of work, but looks great afterwards. Regards Hinrik

Oil pipes from oil tank to sump. I had to clean the grease off, and look how nice it is, the correct dull color of the wartime cadmium plating. Looks so much better then the current plated aftermarket parts.

In box

This is hard to find part, a WD (War Department) marked battery lid. This one came in the original cardbox.

Its something else, to open up these old WWII boxes and pull out 60 year old, brand spanking new parts!

Many of the parts that I bought from a dealer in London, come with the wartime partstags still attached.

Otto, oi, obrigado. Joe, thanks for nice comments. This has taken "blood-sweat and tears" but its very close to starting for the first time. I am hoping to be able to finish it before may 1st, when there is an annual motorcycel drive to from the Capital here to one of our national parks. I have found an original Dispatch riders helmet, coat, gloves, goggles and boots dated 1944 that fit me! So I will look "period" when riding the bike...on warm summer days here. Here are a few photos of the rare NOS parts that I have found and used. Amazing how many old "new" parts are out there.

After getting a copy of the bikes partslist, I was able to make up a long-long list of parts I needed...and since I was working in England for 3 years and went regularily to auto-jumbles and found parts threre. After buying parts for 2 years, I fealt I could start on the bike, and now after 2 more years...this is what it is looking like:

Here you can see the actual plastic "fish box" haha. The bike was a total mess, incorrect girderfork, tank, mudguards and so on. Many of the parts has ugly brass weld repairs on them. It was not really worth the trouble to restore it, but it had a matching number on the frame and engine, which is a little scarce. The main reson I wanted it was because it came to Iceland in WWII with the "Invading" British Army.

Hi guys, Some 10 years ago I made a trade with a friend. He got a 1900?s Bulldog revolver from me (which I got as a gift) and I got a "fish box" of a BSA M20 motorcycle wreck. I did not have any information or partslist on this bike, so nothing happend for a while, until I got in touch with a fellow Aircraft Engineer, that had the same bike here in Iceland. Here are the before photos of the bike:

Guys, There is an MP-44 with a "Krummlauf" device in the Imperial War museum in London. Unfortunatelly I dont have a photo of it, but it looks interesting. Regards Hinrik

I called the old man. He was serving very late in the war. Was on U-27 and U-96 after it had been made a training boat. He does not remember what this was, but did say that when they went out on combat mission they would take some of there personal belongings and seal them in a Zee-sach that would be left in the base of departure. Guess we need to look into this further. hinrik