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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: RAIDER14 on October 21, 2005, 08:56:26 PM
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Germans had a B-17 http://www.303rdbg.com/pp-wulfehound.html
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Yes. The Germans had a special unit that tested and examined captured allied aircraft. They captured most of the planeset (as did the allies to the axis) but they painted theirs in bright yellow colors and flew them around to units to explain the weaknesses and strengths of the plane in question. Once or twice they'd take a B17 and NOT repaint it, move into formation with other bombers and try to shoot them down, but that was less common.
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
Germans had a B-17 http://www.303rdbg.com/pp-wulfehound.html
So does AH so what are you complaining about.
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And the Romanians had 3 B-24s, wanna cookie? ;)
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Japanese had some too.
ack-ack
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KG200 had lots of 'm
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even luftwaffe had spitfires!(http://www.luftwaffe-experten.co.uk/capspit/n3277-02.jpg)
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Originally posted by Krusty
Once or twice they'd take a B17 and NOT repaint it, move into formation with other bombers and try to shoot them down, but that was less common.
Actually, they would take the aircraft in question and shadow a buff group and report the headings and altitude to a ground ack station so they were sure to set their fuses right.
They did this more than once or twice, enough so that USAAF gunners were warned to look at squadron amrkings when unknowns approached the groups.
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Didn't Germany invent the lightbulb?
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Originally posted by viper215
So does AH so what are you complaining about.
Whats this post have to do with you and the comments he just saying germans had a b17 (maybe hes trying to say they should let us have a german 17)
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There was a 38 near Italy that was captured, and piloted by an axis pilot that would pretend to escort a buff home. They were always wounded, he would stick with them, and then after they got comfy, he'd light them up. It worked a couple of times, he was lit up himself.
Karaya
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They actually had to set a trap for him with (I believe) an YB-17?
I also believe the 'P-38-pilot' was Italian, but spoke English perfectly
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Originally posted by ahgod69
Didn't Germany invent the lightbulb?
pfft everyone knows al gore invented the light bulb.
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I have some people working on german B-17 skin :aok
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They wont get it into the game. Skuzzy said many times NO capured skins.
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(http://www.furballunderground.com/blueknights_pictures/userfiles/Morpheus/p38.jpg)
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
There was a 38 near Italy that was captured, and piloted by an axis pilot that would pretend to escort a buff home. They were always wounded, he would stick with them, and then after they got comfy, he'd light them up. It worked a couple of times, he was lit up himself.
Karaya
Do you remember what book you read that in? I remember reading that,but not sure what book.
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"A single P-38G was captured intact by the Italians during the war when the pilot landed at an Italian base by mistake, and this Lightning was flown in combat against Allied aircraft, but this aircraft was quickly grounded due to lack of parts. Two Lightnings that were forced to land in Lisbon, Portugal, while on a ferry flight from England to Algeria were interned and operated by the Portugese, apparently with American blessing."
copied from http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avp38.html
And this http://ferdiepacheco.com/Renegade%20Lightning.htm may have led to some of the amazingly rediculous embellishments I've heard pop up.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Do you remember what book you read that in? I remember reading that,but not sure what book.
Bet it was Martin Caiden's "Fork-Tailed Devil." Unless there's a better source than that, I doubt the accuracy of the story.
- oldman
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
There was a 38 near Italy that was captured, and piloted by an axis pilot that would pretend to escort a buff home. They were always wounded, he would stick with them, and then after they got comfy, he'd light them up. It worked a couple of times, he was lit up himself.
Karaya
Urban myth. Martin Caidan made that up himself. History of the Italian P-38s is a bit different and way less dramatic.