Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:02 pm
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.
Perhaps...but what a way to fool the enemy.
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.
Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:56 am
Here be another, from my collection.............
Sorry I have no details just the photo.
Sorry I have no details just the photo.
Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:19 am
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
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
Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:26 am
Thanks for that, I'm just at the scanning stage, research yet to come. 
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.
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
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
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)
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)