Were there any enemy planes at the D-Day landings?

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[cheddar cheese]

Nice pictures! 8)

 

[The Jagdflieger Pips]

I just got owned. O______O;

 

[mosquitoman]

Don't worry, it happens to all of us (even though we might not admit it)

 

[The Jagdflieger Pips]

Yeah. I'm thinking I got too cocky.

 

[mosquitoman]

I know the feeling

 

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[Vahe Demirjian]

There was one Junkers Ju 88 that strafed the beaches at Normandy -see https://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/warbirds-planes-d-day/ .

 

[Admiral Beez]

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[fubar57]

Priller mentions that he thought he and his wing man would never survive the flight over the beaches due to gunfire and now we have a lumbering Ju88 making a run. It may have been so but I need to see more than one reference to it. I did a quick search and that link is the only one I've seen so far

 

[GrauGeist]

Plenty of accounts of Priller and his wingman making a run down the beach in their Fw190s and later, Ar234 jets making photo recon sorties, but I have never heard of this mysterious Ju88...

 

[michael rauls]

Agree with you guys. I'm learning to be suspicious of one obscure reference stuff.
They may be accurate but on the other hand...... maybe not.

 

[GrauGeist]

Then the article throws in a "Caidinism" with this threadworn nugget:

Indeed, American and British ground forces shot down a number of their own airplanes, the exception being the P-38 Lightning, nicknamed the "Fork Tailed Devil" by German soldiers. Its distinctive twin-boom design made it easy for ground personnel to recognize and, therefore, refrain from firing at it.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Plenty of accounts of Priller and his wingman making a run down the beach in their Fw190s and later, Ar234 jets making photo recon sorties, but I have never heard of this mysterious Ju88...

If I'm assigned to fly over Normandy I'm flying my Fw190 to Britain to surrender. If I don't get shot down, of course.

 

[michael rauls]

Then the article throws in a "Caidinism" with this threadworn nugget:

I once read( so it may or may not be true) that the fork tailed devil monicur stems from a single German foot soldier that refered to the p38s as such after being captured apparently due to them being so quiet the foot soldiers couldn't hear them comming like other types.
Anyway, a war correspondent herd or overheard this and the rest is history as they say. So there may actually be a small cornel of truth in the root of the fork tailed devil name.

 

[fubar57]

I think it was discussed here before that it started in the States