… that brought a tear to the eye. Very moving. Very worthy. Very inspiring.

Good find, thank you Tony

Don

Paul and Adolf Galland

Ian

No … there were FOUR brothers Galland

From this Wikipedia entry on “Wutz” Galland …

Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland was one of four Galland brothers to serve in the Luftwaffe. The oldest brother Fritz Galland served in a fighter and reconnaissance unit and survived the war. His older brother, Lt. Gen. Adolf Galland was one the most renowned German fighter pilots and leader of German fighter operations and also survived the war. His youngest brother Paul Galland, a flying ace with 17 victories, served with JG 26 and was killed in action on 31 October 1942.

Wutz Galland was killed in action on 17 August 1943 during the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.

Don

Think least complicated answer

Come on guys – apply Occam’s Razor. This is most likely a captured aircraft on display. And most likely not repainted (twice). It is possible someone has worked on some original pics in terms of presentation/sepia etc. But to create the whole scene? D

Sturmjager?

1000 pardons for resurrecting an old’ish thread … but I’m interested in any info/discussion re. the markings on this particular aircraft.

I was just viewing a clip on youtube which you can get to instantly by inserting search term “fw190 sturmjager” at youtube. It’s a very nice piece of camera work by someone called Wittmann51 … and the title describes the aircraft as a Sturmjager of Sturmstaffel 1.

Pedantically of course it’s no such thing. But I assume he means it’s painted in said markings. Grey/green mottle over 76, code white or pale grey 14 … and a very nice shield (white cloud on a blue background [suggestive of sky no doubt] with a black, perhaps gloved, hand clasping a yellow lighting bolt or similar).

Anyone got any history/knowledge of these colours and perhaps the history of the machine/unit represented?

Many thanks, Don

No turbosuperchargers?

One of the immediately obvious features of a Liberator is the oval shaped cowlings. Are my eyes deceiving me, but this aircraft has round (cylindrical) cowlings?

A quick google brought up this website, featuring these comments:
“Among the features that distinguished the B-24 … were … oval-shaped engine cowlings necessitated by the mounting of turbosuperchargers”
and
“Of seven service-test YB-24s, six were sent to the Royal Air Force (RAF) under the export designation LB-30A. Because they lacked turbosuperchargers and self-sealing fuel tanks, the RAF found them unsuitable for combat duty over Europe. Instead, they were stripped of their armament and put into service as transports on the Trans-Atlantic Return Ferry Service”

So … round cowlings on these aircraft?

cheers Don

With a gulp … I cast a stone … from my glass house

BTW I would never correct a persons grammer, wrong usage of a word in a particular topic yes, a whole post no.

But we are agreed it’s a good idea to note when a spelling error results in a different meaning … or perhaps when a word simply doesn’t exist?

Grammar.

:p

Undoubted – biggest and bigger have different meanings. Don