Off Topic Unique WW1 Photo - Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York, 1918

[Mark in Rochester]

Searching for pictures I always find interesting O.T. photos





---------- Post added at 12:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 PM ----------



Captured P47

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[fboyj]

Awesome pics. Looks pike a P-51 next to the P-47 and in the far left hand corner what could be a B-25 in pieces

[browningautorifle]

Pyramid of captured German helmets

WOW! I have a book on the captured aircraft.

[Mark in Rochester]

WOW! I have a book on the captured aircraft.

what was the story with the P47

[browningautorifle]

It was just one of several aircraft captured and both used and tested with the USAF. Stranger's in a Strange Land is the title, Hans-Heiri Stapfer author. There are several P47s profiled and many others. This aircraft isn't spoken of specifically.

[Mark in Rochester]

The LH Designation is the 350th Fighter Squadron on the mustang in the background

P-51D LH-N 44-14687 'Lethal Ethel' of the 350th FS, 353rd FG. Crash landed on 24 March 45. The pilot, Lt Carl A Larsen, was taken prisoner.

Larsen, Carl A., Lt.; New York City, 20/8/44 – 24/3/45 (POW). He111 dest and He111 dam grd 18/11/44; two Me410 dest grd 27/2/45.





The Squadron was constituted September 29 and activated October 1, 1942. It was deactivated October 18, 1945. It was stationed at Mitchel Field, New York October 1, 1942; Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia circa October 7, 1942; Baltimore, Maryland October 26, 1942-May, 1943; Goxhill, England June 8, 1943; Metfield, England August 3, 1943; Raydon, England April 14, 1944-circa October 11, 1945; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, October 16-18, 1945. It served on operations in Air defense prior to overseas duty and combat in the European Theatre of Operations, August 9, 1943 – April 25, 1945. It holds campaign streamers for Air Offensive Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe and Air Combat European African Eastern Mediterrean Theatre (EAME). It was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for operations in Holland September 17-23, 1944.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

And I only want one of the helmets.

Great post!

[browningautorifle]

That "WOW" was in reference to the captured helmets. Even at a giveaway price today of $1000 ea CDN, there's enough to buy several houses worth sitting there. From the ones I could count in the bottom row, there were 37.

[Mark in Rochester]

That "WOW" was in reference to the captured helmets. Even at a giveaway price today of $1000 ea CDN, there's enough to buy several houses worth sitting there. From the ones I could count in the bottom row, there were 37.

One caption states 12,000 helmets

[Allen Humphrey]

Germany must have had enough spare parts raining down of Allied aircraft to sustain a small air force. Surely they tested the aircraft and shared the tactical information with operational units, but I've never seen a written account of how their test pilots compared the Allied aircraft against the performance of theirs.