Operation Trolley

[Bino]

I happened upon an interesting photo album on the Spiegel web site.  Apparently, immediately after the war in Europe stopped, the Allies sent streams of bombers over the continent on low-level photo missions, to document the destruction of German cities and airbases.  According to this web site, the mission was called "Operation Trolley" and ran from Monday May 07, 1945 through Saturday May 12, 1945.  Link to the Spiegel article here.  

These are a few of the airbase pictures:

Bernberg:



Naunhof:



Oberpfaffenhofen:

[Pigslilspaz]

wow, that last picture has photos of the arrow, I only thought it ended in prototype phase or around that. Very nice finds

[Infidelz]

wow, that last picture has photos of the arrow, I only thought it ended in prototype phase or around that. Very nice finds

Ya, looks like citing of the Arrows at full squadron strength.  Look to see them in the next UPDATE.

infidelz

[BrownBaron]

wow, that last picture has photos of the arrow, I only thought it ended in prototype phase or around that. Very nice finds

Yup. Looks like that pile of scrap accounts for ~1/3 of all Do 335's produced.

[Karnak]

Ya, looks like citing of the Arrows at full squadron strength.  Look to see them in the next UPDATE.

infidelz

I expect those were the prototypes.

When there are multiple answers to a question, the simplest is most often correct.

[Bino]

I'm not sure, but in the Naunhof photo, I think the wreck on the far right side of the frame may be an ME-262 jet.

In the Oberpfaffenhofen photo, I was interested to note the incomplete plane that is second from the right in the front row.  It seems to be a two-seater, though I cannot make out any radar antennae.  Also, only three of the nine "Pfeilen" pictured even have their front engine installed. Hardly what I would call a "combat-ready" bunch of airplanes.

[Stampf]

Very cool photo's and article none the less, Bino.

[Void]

Looks like mistels and DOs ( planes )

[morfiend]

I'm not sure, but in the Naunhof photo, I think the wreck on the far right side of the frame may be an ME-262 jet.

In the Oberpfaffenhofen photo, I was interested to note the incomplete plane that is second from the right in the front row.  It seems to be a two-seater, though I cannot make out any radar antennae.  Also, only three of the nine "Pfeilen" pictured even have their front engine installed. Hardly what I would call a "combat-ready" bunch of airplanes.

 Bino,I blew up the pix and I think I agree on the 262,you can see the lefthand engine under the wing. The 2 seat Do is likely 1 of the rare trainers that were slated to be built,likely why it doesn't have the radar array.



  Very cool pix and thx for the link.