[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

Feisler Storch.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Aeronaut. I looked this one up. ;-)

Finished in Luftwaffe (W. Europe) low level camouflage
Facilities for dropping diplomatic bags & spies on parachutes.

Thank you for peaking our interest every day!

[SAMWolf]

Morning Aeronaut.

Rommel's favorite way of checking on his troops. I 've read it could land and take off in little more than the length of a tennis court. Exaggeration?

[stand watie]

FYI, the very last German plane shot down during WW2 was a Feisler Storch, which was shot down by a US officer in a Piper CUB, using a 1911A1 45 cal PISTOL & a M1 CARBINE, with 30 round clip.

BOTH the 2 Germans AND the 2 Americans were still alive in 2000 to be re-united in Germany!

i MET the officer who was the liason pilot of the CUB. he has self-published a book about the incident.

he said he AND his observer "got chewed out by the colonel" for doing "this damned stupid aerial circus stunt". AND the colonel gave him a "letter of reprimand", rather than a medal!

the only person injured in the incident, was the German observer, who got his arm broken in 2 places, when the Storch crash-landed! the Storch, however, was a total loss.

free dixie,sw