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Old 7th December 2011, 00:05
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Luftwaffe captured Lancasters

I'm trying to understand and perhaps start a discussion on the Luftwaffe captured Lancasters/ What was their fates? I know that no photographs have yet emerged in the 30 years or so since Herr Lerche's book.
This is what I know

(1) Lancaster I , 49 Sq, W 4107,November 22/23-1942, landed wheels down in Sark (Channel Islands) in an incredible night landing. Somewhere in my notes, I have a photo-copy of a page from book about the Channel Islands, a diary kept by a resident and she expressed amazement a the large size of the bomber standing seemingly unharmed in a field. The cause was flak damage over Stuttgart.
I'm guessing the airframe was sent to Adlershof for examination but I've never seen anything of its fate.

(2) Lancaster I, 12 Sq, ND 325, January 1/2,1944, landed wheels down but incurred damage. This would seem to be the airplane flown by H.W Lerche . Lerche mentions in his book:
"This Avro Lancaster had fallen into our hands in slightly damaged conditions a few weeks previously and was then repaired in the Lufthansa workshops at Travemundene near the Baltic Sea...I was very impressed by this big aircraft...before I could study it more closely I received the message that this very morning was the Invasion of France,June 6,1944."

Also , no captured HP Haifaxes have ever been reported. I guess the Luftwaffe never felt it necessary to rebuild an example given the supply of airframes in German territory.
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