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To: tophat9000
This man isa true hero so I hate to dispute him ... But if he got strafed by P-47 they were not being flown by Germans...

You didn't even read your own excerpt! Please read the last sentence above the line in your own post. They'd been captured.

4 posted on 03/21/2016 3:22:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There was not that many P47 captured intact.. let alone in an operational state for the German to use in combat...
I can only think of a few that were used for evaluation of the aircraft

At most the Germans used a few captured B-17 to pace the American bomber streams

I’ve been an amateur World War II Aviation historians since was a kid ... written a few articles and have and credited assisted in book that you can buy the air and space museum in Washington DC

not trying to be a pedantic but I know my stuff pretty well and I’ve and spoken to a lot War II vets on many technical subject. Some time in recalling you have ..fog of war at the time and little bit of fading memory ...

these men were fighting for their lives in combat... not history geeks trying to document things years later

miss id is very common on both sides that’s just the reality of War


7 posted on 03/21/2016 3:46:03 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: nickcarraway

The Nazis did capture at least two P-47s but it is very unlikely they ever flew them together in combat missions. (They often repainted the tails in yellow to identify them as captured machines.) More likely this incident was blue-on-blue. Recently read an account of the Rhine crossing which describes a similar event - and in this instance ground forces returned fire and brought down one of their own attacking ‘planes.


8 posted on 03/21/2016 3:48:55 PM PDT by Mr Radical
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