Interesting, if slightly depressing, topic!
Re the Ta152, I think the Smithsonian have at least part of one in storage…I could be mistaken though.
Already mentioned are the Stirling, Whirlwind and Whitley; whether the Whirly is “major” (having equipped only one squadron) is debatable, but the two bombers certainly played a substantial role…
Not quite a true wartime type, but the Hornet is such a gorgeous design I’ve got to cite it anyway; and didn’t the prototype fly before war’s end?
Axis types, as has been noted, fared even worse than their Allied counterparts…
Ju188, 288, 388
Do17, 215, 217
Hs129
He70, 112
G4M “Betty”
B5N “Kate”
A5M “Claude”
Ki27 “Nate”
Ki44 Shoki “Tojo”
…and a slew of others from “the other side”. Then there are the French types, only a tiny handful of fighter types having survived, with a Bloch light bomber getting the chop as late as the seventies…
S.
could i also add He 177 and the He 217 🙂 and the TA-152 i think is complete? sitting in the same building with the BV155 and the last horten flying wing i think?
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