CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS
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imalko
Chief Master Sergeant
Good shots guys!
stug3
Staff Sergeant
Not captured of course, but kind of ironic. IAF Avia S-99
You can view the book in their digital library here but, sorry, I hope you not to ask me translation as it always seriously takes a lot of my time.
Thanks for your kind cooperation in advance.
buffnut453
Captain
Thank you for sharing, Shinpachi. I have most of those photographs in the magazines sent by my Japanese friend but there are a few new ones. Fantastic collection of pictures...just wish there were more and that the quality of some were better (but I'm greedy!!!).
Cheers,
B-N
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Thanks for your favorable reply B-N. I appreciate your generosity.
Hello, Igor and vB.
Its original title is "敵機解剖 大東亜戦・鹵獲・撃墜撃破飛行機写真集(Enemy Aircraft Anatomy: Photo Album of planes captured, shot down and destroyed during the Great East Asia War = Pacific War)"
Cheers,
Hello, Igor and vB.
Its original title is "敵機解剖 大東亜戦・鹵獲・撃墜撃破飛行機写真集(Enemy Aircraft Anatomy: Photo Album of planes captured, shot down and destroyed during the Great East Asia War = Pacific War)"
Cheers,
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
THANK YOU my friend!
onetenor
Recruit
Is that supposed to be a lanc? Don't need specs to see that.
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
JU 388 in the USA.
P-38
German personnel preparing for the flight, an American reconnaissance plane Lockheed F-5E Lightning s/n 44-23725 Lieutenant Martin James Monti deserted from the USAAF.On October 13, 1944 he landed his plane at Pomigliano Airfield near Milan in Italy, The Italians had captured the aircraft and handed it over to the Germans.
Source Wiki:
Martin James Monti (October 24, 1921 – September 11, 2000) was a United States airman who defected to the Axis powers and worked as a propaganda broadcaster and writer. After the end of World War II, he was caught and sentenced to long terms, first for desertion, then for treason.
Monti enlisted in the Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. He reported for training and later was commissioned as a flight officer. He subsequently qualified in the P-39 Aircobra and the P-38 Lightning, and was promoted to second lieutenant, when he was sent to Karachi, India (now in Pakistan). Attached to the 126th Replacement Depot, by then a first lieutenant, he deserted the Army Air Forces. He hitched a ride aboard a C-46 to Cairo, Egypt, and from there he traveled to Italy, via Tripoli, Libya. At Foggia he visited the 82nd Fighter Group, and then he made his way to Pomigliano Airfield, north of Naples, where the 354th Air Service Squadron prepared aircraft for assignment to line squadrons. He took note that an aircraft, a reconnaissance version of the P-38 Lightning, needed work and required a test flight after repairs. He stole the aircraft and flew to Milan. There, he surrendered, or rather defected to the Nazis, and subsequently began work as a propaganda broadcaster under the pseudonym of "Captain Martin Wiethaupt".
At the end of 1944, Monti made a microphone test at the recording studio of the SS Standarte 'Kurt Eggers', a propaganda unit of the Waffen-SS, under the direction of Guenter d'Alquen, in Berlin, Germany. He later joined them as a SS-Untersturmführer and participated in writing and composing a leaflet to be distributed by members of the German military forces, and among Allied prisoners of war.
At the end of the war, Monti was in Italy when he surrendered to the Americans (still wearing his SS uniform). In 1946, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the charge of desertion, but was pardoned within a year on condition he join the army. He was serving as a sergeant when the FBI rearrested him in 1948. He was charged with treason, as his propaganda activities as "Martin Wiethaupt" had been discovered by the FBI, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Monti was paroled in 1960.
P-38
German personnel preparing for the flight, an American reconnaissance plane Lockheed F-5E Lightning s/n 44-23725 Lieutenant Martin James Monti deserted from the USAAF.On October 13, 1944 he landed his plane at Pomigliano Airfield near Milan in Italy, The Italians had captured the aircraft and handed it over to the Germans.
Source Wiki:
Martin James Monti (October 24, 1921 – September 11, 2000) was a United States airman who defected to the Axis powers and worked as a propaganda broadcaster and writer. After the end of World War II, he was caught and sentenced to long terms, first for desertion, then for treason.
Monti enlisted in the Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. He reported for training and later was commissioned as a flight officer. He subsequently qualified in the P-39 Aircobra and the P-38 Lightning, and was promoted to second lieutenant, when he was sent to Karachi, India (now in Pakistan). Attached to the 126th Replacement Depot, by then a first lieutenant, he deserted the Army Air Forces. He hitched a ride aboard a C-46 to Cairo, Egypt, and from there he traveled to Italy, via Tripoli, Libya. At Foggia he visited the 82nd Fighter Group, and then he made his way to Pomigliano Airfield, north of Naples, where the 354th Air Service Squadron prepared aircraft for assignment to line squadrons. He took note that an aircraft, a reconnaissance version of the P-38 Lightning, needed work and required a test flight after repairs. He stole the aircraft and flew to Milan. There, he surrendered, or rather defected to the Nazis, and subsequently began work as a propaganda broadcaster under the pseudonym of "Captain Martin Wiethaupt".
At the end of 1944, Monti made a microphone test at the recording studio of the SS Standarte 'Kurt Eggers', a propaganda unit of the Waffen-SS, under the direction of Guenter d'Alquen, in Berlin, Germany. He later joined them as a SS-Untersturmführer and participated in writing and composing a leaflet to be distributed by members of the German military forces, and among Allied prisoners of war.
At the end of the war, Monti was in Italy when he surrendered to the Americans (still wearing his SS uniform). In 1946, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the charge of desertion, but was pardoned within a year on condition he join the army. He was serving as a sergeant when the FBI rearrested him in 1948. He was charged with treason, as his propaganda activities as "Martin Wiethaupt" had been discovered by the FBI, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Monti was paroled in 1960.
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johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
Nice shots...!
Did not know the story behind this P38.
Very interesting !
Do we know what motivated this pilot to surrender to the axis, especially in 1944 after the battle of Normandy ?
Ps : This is sad that a pilot became a SS, just wanna clarify I do not find the soty interesting for this, I just find it strange that a USAF pilot decided to defect as the nazis were defeated mostly everywhere at that time. My Grandfather was forced labour in prisonner camps in germany to be clear. Don't wanna be miss understand
Very interesting !
Do we know what motivated this pilot to surrender to the axis, especially in 1944 after the battle of Normandy ?
Ps : This is sad that a pilot became a SS, just wanna clarify I do not find the soty interesting for this, I just find it strange that a USAF pilot decided to defect as the nazis were defeated mostly everywhere at that time. My Grandfather was forced labour in prisonner camps in germany to be clear. Don't wanna be miss understand
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Is the Ju-388 not one of the most beautiful bombers of the war or what!!?!!!?
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
I'll go with the "...or what!!" part. 
stug3
Staff Sergeant
Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110D "The Belle of Berlin" in British markings on a landing ground in North Africa. This aircraft served with II/ZG76 in Iraq and was captured after crash-landing near Mosul in May 1941. It was used as a communications aircraft and later as a unit 'hack' by No.267 Squadron RAF.
