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

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





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    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



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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester View Post
    Pyramid of captured Germanicon helmets
    WOW! I have a book on the captured aircraft.
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    WOW! I have a book on the captured aircraft.
    what was the story with the P47
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    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.
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    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, Englandicon 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 Franceicon; 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.

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    And I only want one of the helmets.

    Great post!

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    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.
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    Germanyicon 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allen Humphrey View Post
    Surely they tested the aircraft
    That was exactly what they did. They also used them to track allied air formations...track and report on them to some extent. One B17 was seen lying just out of .50 range flying parallel to a bomber formation and disappeared just before flack began.
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