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Re: Photos 3-3-12

Hello Ed , nice pictures from those captured 262, where would they have been brought to and any survivors?
probably all scrab
phil

Re: Photos 3-3-12

Hi Ed,

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Re: Photos 3-3-12

No doubt these are pictures of the moving of the aircraft captured by Watson Whizzers to the HMS Reaper for transport to the US in July, 1945. Author Wolfgang Samuel ( USAF, ret.) describes it in his book with that title 'Watson's Whizzers' and has a similar photograph of a DO-335 being lifted by a crane.

In the book the manifest of aircraft being transported lists 10 ME-262, two DO-335, one TA-152H, one JU-388, one JU-88G, three HE-219, four Arado-234, three FW-190D, six FW-190F, three BF-109G and various trainers and reconnaissance aircraft. The aircraft were cocooned for the trip. Col. Watson flew the JU-290, from Orly to Freeman Field in Indiana in July 1945, with a few stops along the way. This JU-290 had the name 'Alles Kaput' on the nose.

The ship arrived in Newark, NJ. where most of the aircraft were flown to Freeman Field in Indiana. It is known that at least one FW-190F and one ME-262 crashed in Pennsylvania during the flight to Freeman. From that list above, Smithsonian still has one ME-262, one BF-109G, one FW-190F, one DO-335, one HE-219, one Arado-234 on display presently, one FW-190D on loan to the USAF museum, and the TA-152H, the JU-388G in storage.