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[Hansie Bloeckmann]

Fokker D.XXI. "FR-125" at Hyvinkää. 11 July 1941.View attachment 485416

Non-retractable wheels, as on the JU-88 Stuka??

 

[at6]

Looks like they were borrowed from a Stuka.

 

[Capt. Vick]

87

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

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[Wurger]

87

Yep.. and what is more that's the colourized image.

 

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[Graeme]

Non-retractable wheels

There was one experimental version though...

 

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[Shinpachi]

The naked German warrior reminds me of the Germania by Tacitus, MM

 

[buffnut453]

I was thinking "Village People - 1940s Style". All together now Y...M....C....A!!!!!

 

[at6]

View attachment 485550

It takes a huge pair to go into combat dressed like that.

 

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[Elmas]

Oscar, German cat of obscure birth but of sociable character, saw the light in some port of the Reich at the beginning of 1940. Embarked as mascot on the battleship Bismarck, when the ship was sunk by the British on May 27, 1940, he was rescued by sailors of HMS Cossack who found him perched on a floating axis, many hours after the sinking. Passed unknowingly into the Royal Navy ranks, he adapted himself smoothly to the new ship. On October 24, 1941 the Cossack left Gibraltar to escort a convoy to the United Kingdom and was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563. The survivors were transferred to the destroyer Legion, including Oscar, which was taken over by the commander of Gibraltar port. A few months later the Royal Ark applied for a cat, as an anti-mice weapon. So took service on the aircraft carrier. Needless to say, this ship was torpedoed by a submarine, the U-81, returning from Malta. Oscar was once again recovered in the sea, sleeping peacefully on the wreckage of a wrecked boat. He was later assigned to HMS Lightning, which was obviously sunk in combat in 1943 without the cat suffering any consequences. His last embarkation was on the HMS Legion (which he had already collected after the torpedo of the HMS Cossack) but the ship was shipwrecked in 1944. Oscar, angry but in perfect health, was saved once again. Escaped five times to death, the lucky feline now nicknamed "The Unsinkable Sam" became very popular among British sailors. Prudently, however, the Admiralty decided to keep him far from the sea and after an honorable leave, entrusted him - as reported by Detlef Bluhm in the book "Long Cats" - in an institute for sailors, the House for Sailors in Belfast. Here he died of natural death in 1955.

No one has ever discovered if he worked for Admiral Canaris.