Aircraft PicturesDiscuss WWII Aircraft Pics from lesofprimus... in the World War II - Aviation forums; Yea, thanks for that Erich... I hate having to repeat this, but the Papegai is a myth.... Wurger Staffel (Butcher-...
Yea, thanks for that Erich... I hate having to repeat this, but the Papegai is a myth.... Wurger Staffel (Butcher-Bird Squadron) or Platzschutzstaffel..
As for as ur last Erich, Ive seen accounts to suggest both they did and didnt go up with the -262's.... Its hard to accept one or the other as truth... Ive read and talked about JV44 since I was a little kid, and is one of my top favortie Topics...
Can u clarify this for me/us???
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"Boyington was a Drunk, but He was a Drunk We'd Follow Straight Into Hell..."
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BTW, this staffel did occasionally use the radio call sign "Pagagei" (much like an allied flight may be called "Red" or "Baker").... To the pilots and personnel of JV44, however, the unit was simply known as the Würger-Staffel...
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"Boyington was a Drunk, but He was a Drunk We'd Follow Straight Into Hell..."
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And as a little known treat, Lt. Klaus Faber was the only aircraft of the Wurger Staffel to claim an aircraft shot down... (a P-47, shot down on a courier flight)
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OK, the Würgerstaffel Fw 190D picture rocks!!!
I just know it from a 1/72nd scale kit that I'm an owner of... I'm not a Luftwaffe Expert though...
BTW, do you know the story about the picture above the Dora picture?
Maybe someone other here will know...
The No. 416 Squadron RCAF (Nickname: Lynx, City of Oshawa) beared the squadron codes DN between 1940 - 1946... So a Canadien that pilot should probably be...
Maybe someone other here will know...
The No. 416 Squadron RCAF (Nickname: Lynx, City of Oshawa) beared the squadron codes DN between 1940 - 1946... So a Canadien that pilot should probably be...
maybe a 416 pilot but he's not Canadian the uniform doesn't have the Canada shoulder flashes so he's probably a Brit
maybe a 416 pilot but he's not Canadian the uniform doesn't have the Canada shoulder flashes so he's probably a Brit
Maybe, but not necessarily. I've seen photos of Canadian pilots without the CANADA flashes. The Commonwealth air forces in Europe were pretty mixed anyway, so he could possibly have been a Canadian in the RAF attached back to an RCAF squadron.
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Still they got a good photo despite it being staged. The Spitfire flying under the bridge is Ray Hanna (or Mark) and their Spitfire (MH434) taken sometime in the 90's if I remember correctly.
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