[Flitzer]

I think the trail ends with the study by Ernest Bruce, Chief Engineer for Vultee Inc. He wrote a detail article, with photos, on his examination of the aircraft, for Aviation titled "No Ersatz, an American engineer looks at a German Messerschmitt."

The tires were marked Made in Germany, in three languages including English. The machine shows signs of hard service in many ways and it is to be surmised that this particular plane has done a great deal of military flying of one kind or another before being brought down in England.

Arrived in Los Angeles aboard freighter "Montanan" consigned to Vultee aircraft factory.