WWII Aircraft Pics from lesofprimus...

• Aug 19, 2006

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• Aug 19, 2006

• #82

evangilder

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

 

• Aug 20, 2006

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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............

 

• Aug 20, 2006

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lesofprimus

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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...

 

• Aug 20, 2006

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the lancaster kicks ass

Major General

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

 

• Aug 20, 2006

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syscom3

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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.

 

• Aug 20, 2006

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Pisis

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The papegei staffel Fw 190 rocks!!!

 

• Aug 22, 2006

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Gnomey

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Good stuff Les

 

• Aug 23, 2006

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Soren

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Pisis said:

The papegei staffel Fw 190 rocks!!!

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Provided by yours truly

 

• Aug 23, 2006

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Erich

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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 !

 

• Aug 23, 2006

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lesofprimus

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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???

 

• Aug 23, 2006

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lesofprimus

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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...

 

• Aug 23, 2006

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lesofprimus

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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)

 

• Aug 25, 2006

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Pisis

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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?

 

• Aug 25, 2006

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lesofprimus

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

 

• Aug 26, 2006

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Pisis

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

 

• Aug 26, 2006

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lesofprimus

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

 

• Aug 26, 2006

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Pisis

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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...

 

• Aug 29, 2006

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PierreL

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

 

• Aug 30, 2006

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pbfoot

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Pisis said:

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...

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