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Name the Luftwaffe transport types

Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:26 am

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-760-0171-19, Norwegen, Flughafen Fornebu

I think I can count at least five types, including a couple of rarities. Higher res would be interesting!

Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:31 am

All I see is a Target Rich Environment.... :)

Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:51 am

Junkers 52/3m
Junkers 290
Messerschmitt 323?

Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:38 am

Add to that the Junkers G.38 in the center of the pic - a real rarity.

Looks like there may be a few single engine Ju52s as well - scraping up everything when it comes to transports. Between that and the lack of strategic bombers, the beginning of the end of the Third Reich....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

I SPY

Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:50 am

G.38 D-APIS (with only a few months to live!)
at least one Ju 86- cool!
Ju 89 (either the V2 or V3)
Ju 52/3m
Perhaps a W 33 / 34
Rh 104?

Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:46 am

There's a He 111 on its belly on the far right. As for the Ju 89, I think this is a Junkers Ju 90, a few of which were used by the luftwaffe during Operation Weserubung.

Hercules130, for Rh 104, do you mean the Siebel Fh 104?

Regards,

Jan

Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:59 am

Jan wrote:There's a He 111 on its belly on the far right. As for the Ju 89, I think this is a Junkers Ju 90, a few of which were used by the luftwaffe during Operation Weserubung.

Hercules130, for Rh 104, do you mean the Siebel Fh 104?

Regards,

Jan


Not to argue but the Ju89 V2/3 s were used in Operation Werserubung after serving as Ju90 protos Good call on the Siebel, Rh was a typo on my part- Fh is what I should have typed. I think I see a 111 too.

Sure would be nice to see a high res!

Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:17 pm

hercules130,

Thanks. A quick google on Unternehmen Weserubung+Luftwaffe units provided this list: http://www.nuav.net/weserubung.html

According to the list, the seven transport units, K.G.z.b.V 101 to 107, operated Ju 52/3m's and Ju 90's. You may well still be correct regarding the Ju 89, though! According to 'Wrongipedia', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_89 the pair of Ju 89's were scrapped in 1939.

There may also be a Fw 200 Condor somewhere in the picture!

Regards,

Jan

Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:28 pm

They are all personnel transports.
Jerry
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