From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 16:39:06 PDT
>***** Huh. Doesn't seem to make any sense to mark them up that way. I
>mean, they don't look like any German plane of that era so I don't think
>you'd do it to fool the Germans during WWII. Movies for people that
>wouldn't know the difference ?
Steve, I am going to guess (without seeing the pictures) that they are of
a special Luftwaffe unit which flew captured Allied aircraft. IIRC they
did mark them with their own national markings, but can't remember the
details. One of the lesser known formations of the war because it was
small and highly secret. Plus, most of the German records kept in
central archives were destroyed during a bombing raid at the very end of
the war, so many things which were documented were lost forever.
Steve
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