Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection. Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.

Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection. Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight. Original negative at 2018-242.21.

Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson(?), standing on the wing of a captured Messerschmitt ME109 from JG51. RAF Station Kastrup.

Image from the Des White personal collection. Interior view of the hangar at RNZAF Station Nelson. Aircraft in view are: Oxford, Harvard, the tail of a Kittyhawk and the Messerschmitt Bf109 without wings hanging from the ceiling at the far end. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.

Group of RNZAF airmen posed around a partly stripped Messerschmitt Bf109, No. 1654. Believed to be in Wellington. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.