CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS

[Njaco]

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Might the Cat in Chis' last post be a Lend-Lease piece?

 

[GrauGeist]

Might the Cat in Chis' last post be a Lend-Lease piece?

The Soviets purchased three PBY-5 and then built their own based on that model (called the GST). This should be one of those three PBYs, since the GST models rarely had waist blisters.

I also noticed it says "PBY-1" on the rudder (in small black text), which strikes me as unusual.

 

[Snautzer01]

September 6, 1940, Plt. Officer Caister of 603 squadron made a perfect landing near Guines; his Spitfire XT-D Z4260. The authors suggest that this Spitfire was later test flown in Germany

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Russian Catalinas

 

[A6Intruder]

How cool did that Hellcat look !

Indeed it does:

 

[rochie]

Nice one !

 

[Njaco]

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice!

 

[Shinpachi]

A P-51D - one of the 3 P-51s captured by IJA during the war.
Captured in Katsushika province, Chiba prefecture nearby Tokyo on July 15, 1945.
This is said belonged to the 531st flight squadron of 21st flight group of US Army.

For references, a P-51A was captured in Hojing, China on May 30 1944.
A P-51C followed in Hanko, China around February 1945. This was sent to IJA test team in Tokyo next month.
A well known airframe together with a P-40 there.

 

[fubar57]

Did any wear Japanese markings, Shinpachi?




Geo

 

[Shinpachi]

The captured P-51C wore Japanese marking but a test pilot testified A B-29 did not notice it was captured when it approached to the super fortress.

 

[GrauGeist]

The captured P-51C wore Japanese marking but a test pilot testified A B-29 did not notice it was captured when it approached to the super fortress.

Did the P-51 simply observe the B-29 or did it try and engage it?

 

[A6Intruder]

Here is the "Modelversion" of aboves original picture:

 

[A6Intruder]

How about a nice B-17 E in japanese Hands?

 

[A6Intruder]

Or a Hurricane MkIIB?

 

[A6Intruder]

Maybe a Buffalo, ex dutch one: