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Title: An intersting find...
Post by: humble on October 03, 2007, 01:55:37 PM

Was looking for some JG 77 411 (service in tunisia) and happened across this. I had no idea that JG 77 flew the 205 in Italy....translated diary from JG 77 (http://www.ghostbombers.com/JG77/jg77_02.html#top)

Title: An intersting find...
Post by: croduh on October 04, 2007, 02:23:38 AM

Yes, they did:

(http://fetco1.homestead.com/13309s1_macchi205_veltro_05.jpg)

Title: An intersting find...
Post by: Guppy35 on October 05, 2007, 01:41:57 AM

Took me a while to find it, but I knew I'd seen a photo of one in LW markings.  Turns out it's the same bird as the model.

From the 82nd FG history.  Figures it was an MTO 38 book :)

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/LW205.jpg)

Title: An intersting find...
Post by: FTJR on October 05, 2007, 05:33:23 AM

Look closely at this


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiPXk4SY4Q

Do you see the german markings on it?

Title: An intersting find...
Post by: JB73 on October 07, 2007, 12:47:39 AM

Back when I was actually a member of the III/Jabostaffel and we had the rule of only flying LW planes some people gave us crap about flying the 205... we (JB42 and myself) that there were actually 1 or 2 squads of LW pilots flying C.205's.

I have it in a book here at home somewhere, but have had a hard time finding the actual information on the internet.

neat find and thanks for validating my old rules of planes allowed to fly ;) :aok