Battle of Britain Aircraft Dump 1940 ...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

These photos show the UK Cowley, Oxford Aircraft Dump 1940. Artist Paul Nash took these photos as studies for his painting Totes Meer (Dead Sea).

Below a few observations from folks much smarter than I concerning Luftwaffe aircraft and units during the BofB.

"Black 1 is Oblt.Viktor Mölders 2./JG51 shot down 07.10.1940."

"<I-+- is Geschwaderstab JG53 Hauptmann Wilhelm Meyerweissflog shot down 05.09.1940."

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

Meanwhile somewhere in North Africa (looks to be Afrika Korps wrecks being salvaged 1943?)...

Mark Sampson · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:02 pm **Posts:** 302

no doubt they were all smelted down and turned into Lancasters and Spitfires.

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:19 am

Very interesting series.....

Thank you :drink3:

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

Mark Allen M wrote:

Meanwhile somewhere in North Africa (looks to be Afrika Korps wrecks being salvaged 1943?)...

http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/M ... t-Bf109F-4

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:24 am

Thanks Mark. Most interesting. Happy Thanksgiving

LysanderUK · **Joined:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:01 pm **Posts:** 271

A very interesting selection of pics, thanks for sharing. Looking at the very first photo, I'm wondering what type of aircraft would have used the diagonal Warren Truss-like wing rib arrangement??

Aeronut · **Posted:** Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:43 pm

LysanderUK wrote:

A very interesting selection of pics, thanks for sharing. Looking at the very first photo, I'm wondering what type of aircraft would have used the diagonal Warren Truss-like wing rib arrangement??

The Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 (Fabric wing) was like that, but that wing shows no sign of guns being fitted.

It a good game trying to recognise the aircraft types from that wreckage. The fuselages are easy and there is an awful lot of Wellington in the North African pile, but recognising a Do 17 from a tailwheel and a Ju 88 from its ball joint wing root fittings is just showing off.

exhaustgases · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:26 pm **Posts:** 239

And if they only knew the value some of that stuff would be 60 or so years later. Such a waste of some of it.

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