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Re: Ar 196s Captured on Prinz Eugen
Hans,
The image of the tail was taken sometime in the past few years at Garber. I have no knowledge whether it is original or was applied after the war.
I am a volunteer at the museum and a few years back was helping a curator who was gathering info on the Ar196. From what I gathered, the Prince Eugen was given to the US, and sailed to Boston, then Philadelphia. There some gun turrets were removed as was the Ar196. I never confirmed if there were 2 Arados on board. I believe this Arado ended up at Willow Grove NAS (I have an image of an Ar196 there I took in 1972).
During some research for the curator we did discuss whether there was a data plate welded in the framing of the tail, but never had time to get over to Garber to investigate.
Not sure if that is what you refer to as the location of a data plate described in the link you provided. It is mostly in German, which I do not read.
Tony
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