[alanatabz]

There is a report in a local paper that on 22nd April 1944, anti-aircraft guns opened up on a possible enemy raider. Flying low a local golf club steward reported hearing "bump" and assumed it was bombs or Heavy Gunfire.

It was then found the "bumps" came from a droptank.

Questions.

(1) What Luftwaffe Aircraft would carry droptanks in 1944, it seems only fighters or possible a Dornier 217?

(2) Are their any listed defections of German aircraft in April 1944 (see an BF109G defected to Aberdeen in the December that year) that would have carried a fuel tank

(3) It may have been a friendly aircraft, as drop tanks were used on P51s and possibly Spitfires operating in NE Scotland in support of Strike Wink aircraft from Banff / Dallachy.

Anybody any ideas?