British Pathe News achive: Captured FW190

[Alicatt]

Just seen this news reel about the captured FW190. BUT she was not captured on the south coast, she set down at an airfield in Wales after the pilot got lost after a dogfight with a spitfire which it shot down.

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/captured-focke-wulfe-190/query/FW+190

[leapingrodent]

Nice find, thanks for sharing :thumbup:

[Konrad Friedrich]

(Black humor on)

Can't be the real thing.

It takes off to easy without meandering over the whole airfield.

And it does not crash when it get's off the ground.

 

:D:D:D

 

(Black humor off)

 

Nice find!

Thanks.

[Alicatt]

More info on the story:

JUNE 23, 1942: A German pilot unwittingly landed at an RAF base and gifted the latest Nazi fighter plane to Britain when he mistook Wales for occupied France on this day in 1942.

Oberleutnant Armin Faber, who had earlier shot down a Czech airman in a Spitfire, even waggled his wings of his Focke Wulf 190 before touching down at Pembrey.

But, in one of the oddest episodes of World War II, he was left stunned when, rather than receiving applause, an armed British pilot confronted him.

Flight Sergeant Jeffreys, the duty airman, had grabbed a Very pistol, ran from the control tower and jumped onto the wing of the first-rate plane as it taxied in.

Faber was taken to RAF Fairwood Common by Group Captain David Atcherley for interrogation, where he revealed how he had carried out the blunder.

The senior German pilot and his Brittany-based 7th Staffel had earlier been called out to attack 12 American bombers as they returned from a daylight raid.

A fight developed over the English Channel, where the Allied planes were being escorted by three Czech-manned RAF fighter squadrons.

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/on-this-day--german-pilot-mistakenly-lands-at-raf-base-gifts-britain-new-nazi-plane-172718668.html#sLtEGxW

 

Large pic!

Edited August 8, 2014 by Alicatt