By: EHVB - 9th June 2003 at 16:52
This reminds of a photo I saw in the Museum of Army Flying some years ago. In a vitrine was the tail section, with the swastika on it, of I believe a downed JU-88. Hanging just above this relic was a (period) big picture of the same tail, shown as a trophy by RAF personal/pilots who downed the JU-88. The real tail, and the one on the photo were 100% the same one. However, what surprised me very much that the tail in the WW2 photo was almost undamaged, while the same tailsection in the vitrine was covered in bullet holes! So, who shot that tail to pieces after it was already salvaged from the wreck? BW Roger
By: Moggy C - 9th June 2003 at 16:35
Spot on.
Go out and charge a bottle of Chianti to my mess bill (both of you)
🙂
Moggy
By: Dan Johnson - 9th June 2003 at 16:32
Quoting from “Fly for your Life”
“In the waist (Of the BR.20) they found two hampers, large as laundry baskets. One was stuffed with a variety of foods-whole cheeses, salami, huge loaves, cakes, sausages and several kinds of fruit. The other held still more food and over a dozen straw jacketed bottles-Chianti.”
“They went back into the wreck and picked up several steel helmets and bayonets……Back at the airfield a flurry of photographers greeted them. The “Burma” boys posed with their trophies.”
Hows that? 🙂
Dan
By: Snapper - 9th June 2003 at 15:58
Salvage? Thats a Spaghettimans Helmet.
By: Moggy C - 9th June 2003 at 15:53
And the wine?
Moggy 😉
By: Dan Johnson - 9th June 2003 at 15:44
257 Squadron after their encounter with the Italian bombers November 11, 1940. Probably taken at North Weald?
Dan
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