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Re: Did the Luftwaffe use captured Allied Aircraft as 'bogies' & 'spotter aircraft' frequently in the defence of the Reich?
I think you will find that these reports of "stalking horse" captured Allied a/c are just legend. The Luftwaffe had very few flyable Allied machines and strickly kept them as test/evaulation machines as well as the "Rosario Circus" taking them around to various units so a limited number of Luftwaffe pilots might fly them. The Germans would not have risked losing captured machines in "stalking", much less combat.
I know Allied pilots "saw what they saw", but that does not mean it was true or accurate.
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