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Re: Captured Boston A/c used for Recce flights over the UK ?
Hi George
I am afraid that it does not show how the Germans were thinking but more how the allied were thinking. I would not trust information from a AID(K) report too much. Several German pilots cooked up stories just to please their interrigators (or to mislead them). To go through a British interrogation center was not a kindergarden game (expression from a German night fighter crew member). According to several Germans it could be quite 'physical'. They would come up with something just to get some peace. Just think about the story about the New York bomber.
The german airman have probably had a question about a P-47 in German hands from his interrogator and played along as he could see the interest in his opponent.
I have spoken to several German recce pilots and they have never heard of any use of allied aircraft in their units. There is also no mention of this in the squadron strengths (RL 2).
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