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  1. rob lay

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    #26 rob lay, Sep 11, 2013
    Alain was there 2 years ago. Last year Justin Bell, this year Brian Redman.
     
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    #27 Juan-Manuel Fantango, Sep 11, 2013
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    Just a few more pics and then on to the next event! Stop in sometime when you are traveling through....
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    #28 Bob Parks, Sep 11, 2013
    All well and good but it is unclear if any were used in the D-Day operation with invasion markings. I doubt it. Those markings were initiated in the U.K. before the invasion and applied just before things got started. Usually they were applied with a brush and a bucket of paint and sometimes that paint was water based and washed of at the first rain. Look at photos of some of the aircraft operating after the invasion and you will see that the markings were almost gone.
     
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    #29 Juan-Manuel Fantango, Sep 12, 2013
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    That's why I used "embellished" rather loosely in quotations rather doubting it myself. However, your post increased my interest so I googled Storch and D Day and located a few things on the net:

    Decades after documenting war Jack Ford rediscovers of trove of photos | National Post

    harry broadhurst flew Churchill in a captured one of these over the D DAY landing beaches,..,,.looking forward to this,,always looked like a flying ant! ,.,gotta have one,,.desert markings,

    but also this:

    After a quick Google and a sniff around the web, I have found my assumptions in my previous post to be quite incorrect.

    Harry Broadhurst 'liberated' this particular Storch whilst serving in North Africa and it became his own personal mount. Amazingly he did fly Churchill across the English Channel in it to inspect troops at an advanced landing ground not long after 'D' Day.

    He later crashed it in April 1945 when the engine failed after take-off and he landed directly on to a hangar. Walked away with minor scratches.

    Remarkable man,


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    Did the Allies use Captured German Aircraft? [Archive] - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums

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    There is a fair amount of information about the Luftwaffe using captured Allied aircraft, not just for secret missions (such as KG200), but also for analysis. But I'm interested in what German aircraft were used for when they were captured by the allies?

    Obviously many were used for testing, and there are several books about the post-war interest in German types, but I'm more interested in wartime use.

    I know that Churchill used a Storch when he visited Normandy after D-Day, and Ju52's were used by BEA post war (which must have been interesting!), but were any used on special ops? The 'Where Eagles Dare' idea, of using captured enemy aircraft to insert spies, etc is one I havn't heard about, and I'm wondering if it took place.

    I tried one of the general history forum on the BBC website first, but had no luck.
    Can anyone help?
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