Wolf in sheeps clothing.

Discussion in 'The War In The Air' started by David Layne, Nov 2, 2006.

  1. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    I am fascinated by seeing pictures of aircraft that have been captured by an enemy and then bearing the capturing nations insignia. I am posting a couple here that I previously posted in the quiz, can you come up with any?

    First picture is a Heinkel 177, second is a Fieseler Storch.
     

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  2. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Here is a Mitsubishi J2M2
     

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  3. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

    B-17F #41-24585 Wulfe Hound 360th BS (PU-B)
    Original 303rd BG(H) B-17F-27-BO
    First 8thAF B-17 captured and flown by Germans MIA 12 December 1942 mission #6 to Rouen, France (Lt Paul F. Flickenger Pilot) Wheels-up landing in a hayfield near Melun, France (60 mi S.E. of Paris) with ball turret guns pointing downward. Germans were able to transport the B-17 to the nearby Leeuwarden airfield in the Netherlands where repairs made and put in flyable condition. The damaged Ball Turret was never replaced. It was painted with German Insignia and side code DL+XC with yellow paint on the undersurfaces. It was carefully examinined and tested at the Luftwaffe Test and Evaluation Center at Rechlin. Wulfe Hound was first flown by the Germans on 17 March 1943, followed by more testing and development of fighter tactics against B-17s. It was transferred to the Luftwaffe "Kampfgeschwader" KG200 Squadron at Rangesdforf, Germany on 11 September 1943. It then took part in training and highly secretive clandestine missions between May and June 1944.

    Others include Spit and Typhoon.

    Have a look at:

    http://warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/foreign.html
     

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  4. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    This is a Heinkel 115 captured during the Norwegian campaign. Photographed on October 1st 1942 it had been modified for clandestine operations.
     

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  5. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Another Heinkle, this one is an He 219 photographed during evaluations in Britain.
     

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  6. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    This Heinkel 274 was captured in July 1944.
     

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  7. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Pictured is a Heinkel He 162A-2 during a test flight at R.A.E. Farnborough.
     

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  8. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    This Junkers Ju 88S-1 was captured by Allied forces at Villacoublay in September 1944 and is pictured at Collyweston where it underwent evaluation.
     

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  9. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Agggggh all of my pictures have disappeared
     
  10. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    This one from this site discussed here last year.

    Most of the images on the thread do not work.

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  11. adrian roberts

    adrian roberts Senior Member

    What is the aircraft behind the Storch in David's first post in this thread?

    Adrian
     
  12. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    What is the aircraft behind the Storch in David's first post in this thread?

    Adrian


    Vultee-Stinson Vigilant

    Here is a link to what I think is the same type of aircraft.

    http://www.mapsairmuseum.org/stinson.htm
     
  13. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Thanks to Lee missing photographs replaced.
     
  14. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Continuing this thread, here is a Junkers JU 352 in Russian markings.
     

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  15. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    As you can see I like this thread. This is a Messerschmitt Bf 110c-4 Werk-Nr. 2177 of 4 (F) 14 forced down at Goodwood on July 21st 1940 and pictured after repairs with parts salvaged from another crashed example. The photograph was taken October 28th 1941 after being transferred to R.A.F. Duxford as AX 772. It eventually was on the books of the "Enemy Aircraft Flight" at Tangmere.
     

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  16. Cpl Rootes

    Cpl Rootes Senior Member

    When i went to Duxford recently there was a spitfire that actually isn't a spitfire, althought they said it is. How did i know i hear you ask (well actually a guide who is a freind of mine told me) but anyway the engine is the wrong way up!!
     
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  17. adrian roberts

    adrian roberts Senior Member

    Vultee-Stinson Vigilant

    Here is a link to what I think is the same type of aircraft.

    http://www.mapsairmuseum.org/stinson.htm


    Thanks - this enabled me to narrow it down and find some pics of Stinsons. The one in your link is a Reliant; the one in the original picture is a Vigilant as you say.

    Adrian
     
  18. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

    When i went to Duxford recently there was a spitfire that actually isn't a spitfire, althought they said it is. How did i know i hear you ask (well actually a guide who is a freind of mine told me) but anyway the engine is the wrong way up!!

    Er, I may be being a bit dim but why was the engine the wrong way up? Is that like Rover K series engine that was too big for some cars (made changing the spark plugs a bitch!!)
     
  19. David Layne

    David Layne Well-Known Member

    Er, I may be being a bit dim but why was the engine the wrong way up? Is that like Rover K series engine that was too big for some cars (made changing the spark plugs a bitch!!)

    That post confused me too.
     
  20. Cpl Rootes

    Cpl Rootes Senior Member

    thats the whole point it wasn't a Spitfire!! Spitfires have inverted engines so the exhuast points down. This was another plane which had been converted to look like a Spitfire but it still had it's original engine!!

    Get it now?
     

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