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55. At Grove-Karup, Denmark, British Air Ministry numbers were carefully painted by German ground crew using stencils on captured aircraft to be flown to England. Here, Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4/R3 W.Nr. 730037 "D5+DK" became "AIR MINISTRY 30". Similarly, Arado Ar 234 B-2b W.Nr 140466 became "AIR MINISTRY 24", W.Nr. 140608 became "25" and W.Nr. 140476 became "26", Phil Butler,
War Prizes, (Crecy, 2022), pp. 103-104.
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56. "On 4 April 1945 ... it was the turn of "DH" which tried to cover Ipswich and Harwich from 14:58 - 15:54 hrs. but was ordered to turn back after the pilot tried to switch between fuel tanks only to find the transfer pump had failed ...", cf. Nick Beale,
https://ghostbombers.com/recon/234/Denmark/norway3.html.
This was probably Arado recce Ar 234 B-2b W.Nr. 140476 "8H_DH" (black "D") of 1.(F)/33 that was captured intact by British forces at Grove.
The British had German personnel carefully stencil on "AIR MINISTRY 26" and, on 25 June 1945, it was flown by S/Ldr. "Tony" Martindale in formation with Lt. Cdr. (RN) Eric Brown in "AIR MINISTRY 25" from Grove to Schleswig, Germany. That same day, they both flew from Schleswig in a 1 hr and 55 min. dog-leg flight over Gilze-Rijen, Holland,to RAE Farnborough, England.
Note the outer ring of yellow on the roundels, as well as the different shade of the nacelle cowl.