Feldmarschall Rommel and his Aircraft.

[Njaco]

Along the lines of my previous threads and somewhat dfferent, I present a few pics of Erwin Rommel and the planes he flew in and/or sometimes flew. Rommel was known to hop in his Storch and fly over the battlefront to get a clearer picture on operations. I'm not sure if he held a pilot's license. The low flying Storch is noted as Rommel and the solitary Storch is his plane and he was the photographer.

 

[Njaco]

And some others. The He 111 is known to transport him around. I don't have any info on the Ju 87. And, of course, the famous shot of Rommel inspecting 'Pips' Priller's Fw 190.

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Chris!

Here's one I snapped when I was at Reading

 

[Njaco]

Cool Harrison! There is another I'm looking for that has him looking out the cockpit of a Caproni.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool Chris!

 

[B-17engineer]

This? Due to copyright I can't post it (the forum won't let me!!!)

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...=184&ty=125&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Should be there if not google "Caproni Rommel" and it'll be the first image.

 

[Njaco]

I did and it seems protected by LuftArchiv. D@mn.

 

[P-40K-5]

this one?

 

[Njaco]

Thats a good one. The one I tried to get is closer and you can see Rommel waving out the side cockpit window.

 

[P-40K-5]

I don't have one of him waiving but I do have this one:

 

[Njaco]

THats it!!!! Thanks!! (waving, well, maybe it was my imagination.....)

 

[B-17engineer]

Interesting the computer let him upload it since its from Luftarchiv....

 

[Njaco]

He may have shelled out the $$$

 

[A4K]

Cool thread Chris!

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff Chris!

 

[Wayne Little]

definitely cool Chris!

 

[Airframes]

Just caught up with this - good stuff Chris! What's the aircraft Harrison posted? Looks like a conversion of an American type, the name/number of which escapes me (maybe a Stinson?) to look like a Storch.

 

[B-17engineer]

It looks like the same one Chris posted in his 1st post, 2nd photo? They both have 5F+YK, not sure if its an adaptation but they're the same plane, I think

 

[Njaco]

And I'm not sure that the one I posted isn't a current replica. Harrison didn't we see that Storch at Reading last year? Gonna check my pics.

 

[B-17engineer]

Honestly don't remember, so many planes there