By: Rlangham - 5th April 2006 at 15:51
According to ‘War Prizes’, VX154 was not captured until 1945 (in northern Germany) and therefore not the Storch in which Broadhurst flew Churchill round the Normandy strips (how dangerous was that!).
Not as dangerous as when he was looking down the barrel of one of the machine guns on a Gloster Gladiator just as his wife, sitting in the cockpit at the time, was about to press the firing button!
By: Cranswick - 5th April 2006 at 12:09
According to ‘War Prizes’, VX154 was not captured until 1945 (in northern Germany) and therefore not the Storch in which Broadhurst flew Churchill round the Normandy strips (how dangerous was that!).
The ‘Churchill Storch’ was marked ‘HB’ but no serial was visible. I am pretty sure it would have been Dark Earth/Dark Green but not sure about the undersides – yellow as on comms aircraft? or camouflaged as on AOP Austers?
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April 5, 2006 at 1:38 am