Re: [MV] US Airplanes with German markings

From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 19:47:03 PDT


Plenty of info and pictures on the web, also was not limited to the Second
WW. Wayne

http://members.aol.com/dheitm8612/capture.htm

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/FAACapturedAircraftHomepage.html

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17_22.html

http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/tgenth/WW1_1e.html

> >***** 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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