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Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:40 pm

Pogmusic wrote:It WAS the easiest way to render unserviceable. Later, a friend once told me he had the dubious honor of driving a dozer down a line of parked aircraft and knocking their tails off.


It's interesting that chopping the tails was done frequently in southern Germany, whereas in Denmark, Finland and Northern Germany, you were more likely to find aircraft with just their props removed to prevent them from being flown. I hadn't really clued into that until just now... I wonder if that came down to how the disarmament instructions were interpreted?

Lynn

...now we are drinking beer out of them...

Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:35 pm

:?

Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:54 pm

the blohm & voss flying boat is of considerable interest!!

Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:33 am

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Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:42 pm

Hi,

very interesting pics for the Night Fighter.

SPang

Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:52 pm

i have a ju-88 radio direction control box from a mistel configuration, but i lost the detail of it's provinence.

Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:58 pm

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Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:33 pm

Thanks for sharing!!!

Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:12 pm

your more than welcome..........

Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:17 am

absolutely incredible pics, i've never seen them, & have been a warbirder since 1972. what an archive!!

Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:39 am

Can you imagine being a G.I. at the end of the War and walking into a hangar and seeing what was in pictures 26 and 27? That must've been like something out of a Buck Rogers movie to them.

Gary

Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:00 am

Indeed a great batch of photos, thanks for sharing. I had seen a few of them before, but they are a great "snapshot" of the leftovers of the Reich. Wreckage everywhere, planes of all shapes and sizes, got to have been somewhat awe inspiring. I used to work with a fellow who was with the 8th AF over Europe, he swore that German Jets were just a propaganda myth since he hadn't seen any!!!

Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:42 am

Very cool photogs!!!

Thanks!!!

Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:12 pm

Wow! :shock: I have never seen any of these. Thank you so much for sharing. :D :D

Is the HO229 in pictures 26 and 27 the one recently discussed in This Thread ?

Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:37 pm

Really great and historical photos. Any chance of having any in color so we can set some of the color cops straight?
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