CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS

[GrauGeist]

There's a couple Swiss B-17s...try a Google image search, there's a few color profiles in the first results.

Seeing that Swiss B-17 reminds me of the Swiss P-51D I posted some time back...now that would be a good model project!

 

[DFM+BB]

@ Buffnut453 and Aaron Brooks Wolters,
GrauGeist, is right the were a couple of B17 that landed in Swiss territory ( As I said in my previous post the pict is well known but I just wanted to share because this is the topic as the captured Stuka photo is also well known )
But you are right would make a lovely model

To me the aluminum P51B in swiss marking looks better

One more

 

[buffnut453]

I just have a soft-spot for 303rd BG B-17s. For a long time, we lived just a couple of miles from RAF Molesworth - the Hell's Angels were a pretty amazing outfit.

 

[Wayne Little]

Very Cool!

 

[Njaco]

Just found a couple....

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[fubar57]

OK...just went through all 33 pages of this awesome thread(Gad I need a life) just to avoid a repost. Found the photo of this color profile. From a Russian language book "Luftwaffe Losses on the Eastern Front" Would there be stars on the upper wing surfaces as well?

Geo

 

[Snautzer01]

NJACO Consolidated B-24H-5-DT Ser. # 41-28641. This B-24 was used to fly supply missions to the Island of Rhodes in late 1944. The Liberator was recaptured by U.S. troops at Salzburg, Austria.

 

[Njaco]

That looks like a better, color pic of the one I posted. Cool!

fubar, thats a JG 3 109 that was captured.

 

[Rogi]

OK...just went through all 33 pages of this awesome thread(Gad I need a life) just to avoid a repost. Found the photo of this color profile. From a Russian language book "Luftwaffe Losses on the Eastern Front" Would there be stars on the upper wing surfaces as well?

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Geo

Omg I have a G-2 in the stash that I couldn't choose what markings to make her as, thanks Geo for the idea

 

[Njaco]

don't remember if these have been posted...

 

[Shinpachi]

A Curtiss P-40 captured at Clark Field in the Philippines.
German military attache stationed in Japan Major general Gronau inspects the airframe.

2nd photo shows stencil on the portside.

 

[GrauGeist]

OK... Would there be stars on the upper wing surfaces as well?

Yes, the VVS had 8 red stars for thier aircraft: located on upper lower wing, fuselage and vertical stabilizer.

Chris, second photo down, the B-25s in that shot weren't captured, they were being readied to ferry over to Russia (or had just recently arrived)

 

[fubar57]

Many thanks GrauGeist.

Geo

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet Pics....

 

[buffnut453]

Shinpachi,

Thank you for the pictures of the P-40. Please note the photo in the lower left corner is an ex-Dutch airframe captured in the Dutch East Indies. It's a different airframe from the US P-40 shown top right.

By the way, where were these pictures published? I haven't seen them before.

Many thanks,
B-N

 

[Gastounet]

I cannot remember where I have found this photo of a french bombrer

Lioré et Olivier Léo 451 used by germans for transport.

 

[Njaco]

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Chris, second photo down, the B-25s in that shot weren't captured, they were being readied to ferry over to Russia (or had just recently arrived)

I knew that and still posted it! What a dunce.

 

[Shinpachi]

Shinpachi,

Thank you for the pictures of the P-40. Please note the photo in the lower left corner is an ex-Dutch airframe captured in the Dutch East Indies. It's a different airframe from the US P-40 shown top right.

By the way, where were these pictures published? I haven't seen them before.

Many thanks,
B-N

Thanks for your information, B-N.
That book was published by Asahi Shinbun, a local press company, for the Japanese aviation fan in 1943.
A roll of microfilm seems available inside National Diet Library in Tokyo.

 

[buffnut453]

Thanks Shinpachi. The surviving photos of Allied aircraft captured by Japanese forces in Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies are a treasure-trove of useful info. I'm always on the lookout for pics of Martin B-10s, P-35s or Buffalos so, although these didn't cover those topics, I still found them interesting. I was fortunate to work with a gentleman in Japan a few years ago who purchased original WWII magazines for me that were absolutely filled with photos of captured aircraft. Fascinating stuff! I keep hoping there's more to be discovered, like the recent photo sold on ebay of a 243 Sqn Buffalo wreck at Kallang, Singapore.

Cheers,
B-N

 

[Rogi]

Thanks Shinpachi. The surviving photos of Allied aircraft captured by Japanese forces in Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies are a treasure-trove of useful info. I'm always on the lookout for pics of Martin B-10s, P-35s or Buffalos so, although these didn't cover those topics, I still found them interesting. I was fortunate to work with a gentleman in Japan a few years ago who purchased original WWII magazines for me that were absolutely filled with photos of captured aircraft. Fascinating stuff! I keep hoping there's more to be discovered, like the recent photo sold on ebay of a 243 Sqn Buffalo wreck at Kallang, Singapore.

Cheers,
B-N

If only these pics came out more often Its amazing what pops up once in a while, I've almost completed my "Foreign aircraft in Japan markings" model collection just about 20 or so more to go hehe

Great stuff and more pics please !