Photo 01: This photo of a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) coded (KR+QZ) being repaired in Russia during WWII.

Photo 01: This photo of a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) coded (KRQZ) being repaired in Russia during WWII.

Photo 02: This photo of an airworthy Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) depicting a German Army Medical Service Unit based in Russia during WWII

Photo 01: This is a photograph of a Luftwaffe Aufklarer German Reconnaissance Fieseler Fi-156C-5 Störch (Stork) coded SF+RR at Malmi in spring 1942. On 21 July 1942 it made a forced landing to Aspnäs in northern Sweden.

Photo 02: This photograph is of a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch operated by the army medical service coded (KN+OJ) based in North Africa 1942. A common sight wherever German forces were operating, the Storch could perform in several valuable roles. Here, this Fi-156D-1 in Tunisia illustrates the upward-hinging loading hatch on the lowered rear glazing, which permitted the carriage of one stretcher case in the rear fuselage after some arrangement of internal equipment

Photo 01: This photograph is of a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch operated by the army medical service coded (KN+OJ) based in North Africa 1942.

 

 Demyansk, Novgorod Oblast, Russia Map

 

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