Here are two pics taken from Avions # 117 (French magazine – Dec 2002)
A He-111 found on a Normandy airfield in August 1944 and a Ju-88 that never flew eigher (Salon de Provence, South of France)
Lots of other examples are included, from various airfileds (one from Stavenger for example)
Luftwaffe used them for two opposite goals :
* to divert allied planes from real airfields (with such plane models but too with false tower and hangar)
or
* to hide real activity of an operational one (for example with false cows as some pics show it)
sometimes, false and real machines (some still operational or some damaged beyond repair) were placed side by side.
I take it the ‘410 would be skinned over? The frame looks terribly naked to me!
See the He-111 photo – they received skins ‘in the field’ – the photo of the Me-410 is as they came from production.
Martin
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