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Old 22nd April 2021, 13:14
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Re: Captured German planes, not from eBay

Thanks to the pointer of Kari Lumppio in the Staaken Bf 109 thread, here some photos from the Estonian archives showing:

A Fw 189 wreck possibly from 1.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 31, found at E.-Hafen Wesenberg -Rakvere which was captured 20 September 1944 by the Russian army. photo is dated October 1944:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=60814a0c0d2cd

At the same location, a trashed Ju 87 D center section with a Fw 189 fin in the background:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=60814b70dbf84

The remains of a Fw 190 F-8, possibly from I./SG 5, also at at E.-Hafen Wesenberg -Rakvere, October 1944:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=60814bed3f613

One or more II./JG 54 Fw 190 A-8 wrecks and abandoned AB 250's in the vicinity of the Landeplatz Turgel-Türi (called Särevere airfield in the caption), near Järvamaa, 12 November 1944:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=60814675aa396
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608147095a512
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608147b52c770
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=60814732c37de

This other set does show another Fw 190 F-8 "Schwarze B", III./SG 3, found wrecked at Fl.Pl. Oberpahlen- Pöltsamaa and photographed By Hans Tölpt in December 1944:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608148006ef18
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608148ea22f92
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608148ea22f92
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608148ea22f92

And one unknown biplane wreck, also found at the same location and photographed by Hans Tölpt in december 1944:
https://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php/en...=608148ea22f92

Cheers
Marc
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