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Yep, I see the point, it make sense, thank you Colin.The only practical reason I can think of for digging the wheels out is that it got bogged in, they waited for the ground to dry out sufficiently and then got to it
Yep, I see the point, it make sense, thank you Colin.
Anyway seems a bit strange to me they had previously parked the plane into a real marsh...
Any other?
Funny how that same exact problem hampered Napoleon's troops too...I don't think they deliberately parked it in a 'marsh'.
The onset of the Russian winter brough many problems for German mobility, mud or 'rasputitsa' severely hampered progress, resupply and affected all arms of the German offensive, roads and landing strips were quickly reduced to quagmires. Ground forces often resorted to wheeled vehicles being towed by tracked vehicles, the Luftwaffe just did the best they could.
Days ago I came across this strange photo of an early model of Heinkel 111 bomber on the site Airwar.ru:
I believe the Russian aircraft had radialsI thought it was an early He111 too but I'm not familiar enough to positively identify it, be helpful if we could see the tail, that was unmistakeable
They're too well-dressed to be Russian ground crewI think there's no doubt it's an Heinkel He111-b1 like this below:
I believe the Russian aircraft had radials
I think Colin hit the nail on the head with the reason for the attitude of the wheels - you can see the planks lying around ready to be used for traction when they pull her out.
Bloch 162… but I'm not the first to point it out.Days ago I came across this strange photo of an early model of Heinkel 111 bomber on the site Airwar.ru:
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Can someone tells me for what reason they digged into ground wheels?
I really can't figure out why...
Cheers