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Old 8th July 2019, 13:01
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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by RudiS View Post
9 December 1944: He 111H-16 (W.Nr. 8433) 2B+DC, piloted by Maj. Domokos Hadnagy, Head of the Technical Branch of the Hungarian General Staff, landed at San Severo (FG). It had been sent to Italy by the MFM resistance movement which hoped to co-operate with the Allies and split Hungary from the Axis. One of 32 He 111s purchased from Germany. It carried a red "4" low down on the rudder.

On 28 December 1944, the Komm. Gen. der Deutschen Luftwaffe in Ungarn queried the whereabouts of He 111 W.Nr. 6852, 2B+FD (Stammkennzeichen SD+DD) which had left Breslau-Schöngarten at 0900 GMT ten days earlier for Tulln-Wien, en route to Papá.
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