4th March 2023, 00:24
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Shanghai, China
Posts: 3,636
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Re: Captured German planes, not from eBay
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Originally Posted by waldo_pepper
I found this photo during a routine search for other interests and thought it may be of interest.
Description: Women's Army Corps Private Betty Jones, left, receiving telegram from First Lieutenant Kathryn Leach of the Red Cross Motor Corps. Miss Leach handing Mrs. Jones a letter from her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Richard I. Jones, who was captured at Panay and is a prisoner of war in Japan. The delivery was made at Farrington Field where Jones is helping set up the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) "Shot From the Sky" exhibit. The two women are standing in front of an airplane. Star-Telegram Morning Edition February 28, 1945.
https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20027513 |
Thank you for this find.
Note how close to the canopy the black cross is painted. This is the famous (?) Bf 109 F-4 having a Red (?) 19 painted behind the cross, a white band around the fuselage and a large Swastika re-painted on rudder. I have no other informations.
Regards,
Franck.
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