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170499 Ju 188 A-2 3E+PH I/KG 6 (Luftwaffe)
Found dismantled for repairs (was jacked up in an open blast-pen, with one wing missing but other Jumo 213 A-1 engine still alongside) but looted, at Brussels/Melsbroek Airfield, Belgium, in late autumn of 1944 (before 10.10.44) - Was dumped (jack removed some time after, breaking the horizontal tail, <one> photo caption 07.10.44)

Marcel van Heijkop

18th April 2021 00:57

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by edNorth (Post 305003)

Thanks Ed! That's what I expected.

Regards,

Marcel

RudiS

19th April 2021 09:51

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

https://i.ibb.co/3crbZRr/Fw-190-324.jpg

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-US-GI-...QAAOSwpdhgfLO1

Maciej Góralczyk

19th April 2021 23:36

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

Post #4493It looks very much alike WNr. 175140 captured at Melsbroek, but it is parked in 'normal' position whilst 175140 was captured on numerous photos as flipped on the nose, and reported as destroyed "when a boobytrapped 250 kilogram bomb buried under its engine exploded while it was being moved by American troops expanding the runway in mid-October 1944". Interesting...

Matolion

20th April 2021 09:52

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by Maciej Góralczyk (Post 305086)

It was W.Nr. 175140 from Melsbroek. Here is another photos from a horizontal position

Maciej Góralczyk

20th April 2021 22:34

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

Thanks!
Wonder about the credibility of this explosion report then...

RudiS