WWII Aircraft Pics from lesofprimus...

[lesofprimus]

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[evangilder]

Is that a shell hole or a flak hit on the Spitfire?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

either way a few feet forward and he'd be dead, but if it was flak wouldn't it be more likely that there'd be multiple hits? and those drawings are great............

 

[lesofprimus]

Ive posted my drawings before Lanc, and CC has one of them as well, as Im sure ur aware... Just thought Id dump them out there again for the noobs...

I would assume that hole is from flak, otherwise it was one hell of a cannon round that made that hole...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yeah i've seen CC's in his room, although i didn't recall seeing the spitfire one before........

 

[syscom3]

That one of the B17. Amazing the plane flew back to base.

I cant imagine what the pilot, copilot and flight engineer were thinking. Everythings fine, going through the flak, and in one moment the whole nose of the plane dissapears.

 

[Pisis]

The papegei staffel Fw 190 rocks!!!

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff Les

 

[Soren]

The papegei staffel Fw 190 rocks!!!

Provided by yours truly

 

[Erich]

Würger staffel gents not Papegai staffel another after the war myth. My understanding that in reality the Doras were never in the air the same time the JV jets were .......

well yee haw to that !

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea, thanks for that Erich... I hate having to repeat this, but the Papegai is a myth.... Wurger Staffel (Butcher-Bird Squadron) or Platzschutzstaffel..

As for as ur last Erich, Ive seen accounts to suggest both they did and didnt go up with the -262's.... Its hard to accept one or the other as truth... Ive read and talked about JV44 since I was a little kid, and is one of my top favortie Topics...

Can u clarify this for me/us???

 

[lesofprimus]

BTW, this staffel did occasionally use the radio call sign "Pagagei" (much like an allied flight may be called "Red" or "Baker").... To the pilots and personnel of JV44, however, the unit was simply known as the Würger-Staffel...

 

[lesofprimus]

And as a little known treat, Lt. Klaus Faber was the only aircraft of the Wurger Staffel to claim an aircraft shot down... (a P-47, shot down on a courier flight)

 

[Pisis]

OK, the Würgerstaffel Fw 190D picture rocks!!!
I just know it from a 1/72nd scale kit that I'm an owner of... I'm not a Luftwaffe Expert though...
BTW, do you know the story about the picture above the Dora picture?

 

[lesofprimus]

A lucky pilot and a near miss flak hit, thats about it...

 

[Pisis]

That's quite obvious, but there should be the pilot's name, sqdn number, story...

 

[lesofprimus]

Maybe there is but Im not aware of it... The pic was titled PQUUDTR0012.jpg

 

[Pisis]

Maybe someone other here will know...
The No. 416 Squadron RCAF (Nickname: Lynx, City of Oshawa) beared the squadron codes DN between 1940 - 1946... So a Canadien that pilot should probably be...

 

[PierreL]

Lesofprimus,
Thanks a lot for all these documents, I could start a collection of History pictures!!
Do you know that one?

 

[pbfoot]

Maybe someone other here will know...
The No. 416 Squadron RCAF (Nickname: Lynx, City of Oshawa) beared the squadron codes DN between 1940 - 1946... So a Canadien that pilot should probably be...

maybe a 416 pilot but he's not Canadian the uniform doesn't have the Canada shoulder flashes so he's probably a Brit