Thankyou Cranswick for telling us all about the plane – there is a poor damaged negative showing the other side where the codes are legible but thats all!
There are half a dozen shots from the day the RAF put on a show for the people of Copenhagen shooting up and sinking about 5 Bv138s.
Here are a group of Meteors and the JU 88 is one of a group being scrapped
One of the BV´s is on display at Danmarks Tekniske Museum in as-found condition. It was found when the bridge across Øresund was built.
Regards
Jon
I have earlier shown this picture (and more) of an A-20 lost on its way to Alaska. Lies @ 10 km. south of BW-1 (NSSQ) on South Greenland.
Click on the picture for larger version:
I got a photocopy of the official U.S. crash report:
And, by sheer coincidence, Life Magazine had a story about the squadron only a month before- Check the serial on the tail:
Talk about a sister plane!
What I don´t know is – why was it brought back to the US? Was the A-20 obsolete by the time, and the plane brought home for melting down – or wuold it have been just for a thorough service?
The A-20, I understand, was not equipped with self-sealing tanks, like the newer Marauder, so were they being ditched?
Jon
Now I have this idea for a diorama at the RAF Mus.
That’ll be 250 railway sleepers, 1000 Sq. metres of membrane…;)
Mark
What is the story behind this fascinating picture?
Jon
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