CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS

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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!
 
@ 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
 
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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
 
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.

 
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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
 
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.


 
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.
 
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 !
 
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