Heinkel He115 recovered in norway

[Bob Womack]

Lots of pilots, both German and British, owed their lives to this design during the Battle of Britain. It was really a funny situation: the Germans used them as an air/sea rescue vehicle for downed pilots, picking up Brits and Germans ind1scriminately. In this role they sometimes even marked them with red crosses. Knowing that they were a bomber type, the Brits didn't particularly avoid shooting them down, unless they knew there was a rescued Brit aboard!

Bob