Allied Me-109? Seen this?

262crew · **Joined:** Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:24 pm **Posts:** 877

Start flying your enemy's aircraft in combat, and it gets very messy very quickly, despite how often it occurs in fiction.[/quote]

Perhaps...but what a way to fool the enemy.

Mgawa · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:24 am

In Yugoslavia was used captured airplanes even in original German markings against retreating Croatian and Serbian Nationalist forces.

hairy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:56 am

Here be another, from my collection.............

Sorry I have no details just the photo. :roll:

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2683

On 22 November, Fw Karl Hier of 1./JG76 landed near Woerth, Bas-Rhin, some 12 miles on the French side of the border. This machine, white 1, W.nr.1304, was first test-flown by the French at Orleans-Bricy and later turned over to the British, where it became AE479.

The aircraft was handed over to the RAF at Amiens on 2 May 1940 and the following day Brown flew this aircraft to the A & AEE at Boscombe Down. On 14 May 1940 the plane was flown to the RAE and given the serial AE479.
On 7 April 1942 the plane was shipped to the USA.

AE479 was shipped to the US in April 1942, consigned to Wright Field. It arrived there in May but only had a short career as it was damaged beyond repair after a forced landing on 3rd November 1942...

Regards,
Mike

hairy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:26 am

Thanks for that, I'm just at the scanning stage, research yet to come.

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:54 am

hairy wrote:

Here be another, from my collection.............

This photo was taken at RAF Duxford, when serving with the 'RAFwaffe'. It's clearly looking south, at the eastern end of the airfield.

PeterA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:14 am

...Duxford today

From 'War Prizes' I see the Me 109E-3 at Duxford was AE479. Shipped to the US in May 1942, it suffered a force landing at Cambridge, Ohio, on 3 November 1942 and was damaged beyond repair.

PeterA

lmritger · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:01 am

Since it's a 109 pic, I just HAD to see it, but figured it would be just another rehash... imagine my surprise, then, to find a completely unknown (so far) pic of a captured G-6!

It's an early G-6, captured in the Med (note the overpainted white band immediately behind where the cross would go)... I'll wager this was either a JG 53 bird from Sicily or a JG 77 aircraft picked up in Tunisia. Looks to have red wingtips as well- someone suggested the 65th might've snagged it, and that sounds reasonable. I'll have to dig a bit more on this one... great find, thanks for posting it!

Lynn
(Webmaster, The 109 Lair)

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