Where is this place? I'm not sure what caused the crash but found this note on Pinterest: Bf 109G-6/AS W.Nr. 441 139 ,YELLOW 7, Uffz Rudolf Strosetzki, 6./JG 11, Tilly-Sur-Seulles, 7 June 1944. The Imperial War Museum also indicates Tilly-sur-Seulles, but the Library and Archives Canada names the location as Beny-sur-Mer. The turf behind the crashed German fighter looks manicured, like a park. The aero engine was soon removed and taken away as the pictures show. TANKS GO INTO ACTION NEAR TILLY-SUR-SEULLES TANKS GO INTO ACTION NEAR TILLY-SUR-SEULLES 30TH CORPS IN ACTION SOUTH OF BAYEUX (PART 3) [Allocated Title] Canadian soldiers draining gasoline from a damaged Messserschmidt 109 aircraft that crash-landed beside a German radar station near Beny-sur-Mer, France, 16 June 1944 I don’t know which agency/photographer made the background image. The inset picture is official and recorded by Lt. Donald I. Grant of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, although I could not trace the archive catalogue number the creator number and photographer’s initials were etched on the film.
A bit more here 6 Staffel - Bf109G-6/AS - Yellow 7+, WNr.441139, downed near Creully, 07.06.1944 - Uffz. Rudolf Strosetzki | Luftwaffe Research Group (luftwaffe-research-group.com) although you need to be a member (I'm not) to get extra detail
To get a little insight into the conditions at that time, a short statement of the pilot from an interview of 6.8.1993, quoted from: Prien/Rodeike, Jagdgeschwader 1 und 11, Teil 2: 1944, p. 955 Thus on 20.5.1944 at II./J.G. 11 there were due to the reported weather situation, which was not expected to allow any operations during the next two days should permit, a "celebration". The fighter pilot Rudolf Strosetzki remembered the surprising redeployment mission the next morning: "With the help of a lot of coffee, they then tried to 'beef us up' to some extent. 'to get up' to some extent, before we went on our way (...) after the start of the alarm. (...) After two pilots forgot to retract the landing gear; all shouting over the radio did not help, because they had not switched on the radio at all, because it was so loud with its constant cracks and the sharp noises, it would have disturbed the already heavy head at most".
Crash site should most likely be between Moncreux-en-Bessien and Tilly-sur-Seulles on the road D6 After a little search I found the decisive clue - not surprisingly - in this forum: Nr. Bayeux or Tilly Sur Seulles - could anyone help further identify where these Sherman tanks are? Three Royal Signallers from 30th Corps' HQ examine the remains of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 'Gustav' fighter shot down near Bayeux in the course of a 'tip and run' raid on the Allied beach-head in Normandy 30TH CORPS IN ACTION SOUTH OF BAYEUX (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
