Rare picture of AM225 (possibly WNr 24016). Captured by the USAAF at Rheims, it was handed over to the RAF, being test-flown and subsequently flown to Merville, France, on its delivery flight to the RAE on December 13, 1945. Due to hydraulic trouble, which prevented the nose wheel to be lowered...
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OK....I went with option D....
The challenge here will be to break up the monotony of black.
Geo
B17F-1-BO 41-24380 SUPERMAN assigned to 92nd BG at Bangor Jun 24, 1942; sustained a crashlanding at Bangor Jun 26, 1942, repaired; re-assigend to 97th BG, 340th BS at Polebrook Jul 26, 1942; re-assigned to 12th AF at Maison Blanche, Algeria Oct 11 1942. Salvaged November 30, 1945.
A captured Heinkel He 111. Subsequent to the German surrender in May 1945, this aircraft was allocated to the 56th Fighter Group,United States Eighth Air Force. Handwritten on slide:"56 Fg He 111 wa BattistaLt. Allbright 11" Printed on slide: "SEPT 1997 05"