My Grampa (RCAF) posing with a nazi plane he’d shot down in Egypt, circa 1942-1943.
Posted Nov 11, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC
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Beast mode!
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That’s another level of old school cool
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FW190 with a ME109 in the background. Now that’s cool.
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My uncle passed down to me a clock he got from a German cockpit. The back was made of plastic and it just nested into the console.
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That’s a really neat thing to have! I don’t know how many souvenirs mine brought back, but I am grateful he took a camera with him!
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Pictures are the best. My dad was with the First Division and there were ZERO pictures of him in Europe.
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Cool!
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Kind of odd there is another wreck sitting right behind it, what's the story on that one?
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Hm, I’m not sure off hand. This was a dog fight and later they landed and started goofing off. I’m not sure if there would have been some sort of cleanup or something where they’d try to get all the wreckage in one space. I’ll have to see if my dad knows, as my Grampa has passed.
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👍
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The quality kind of ruined him, but if you zoom in you can see my Grampa’s pal messing around in the pilot chair.
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What was that film that involved a shot down plane in the desert and they relied on an airplane engineer to turn the broken plane into something that would fly.
And it turned out he was just a model aircraft designer, German fella I think.
Probably a 70’s(WW2)film and everyone spoke proper English so to speak.
Anyway, this pic reminds of that film!
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Flight of the Phoenix. It wasn't shot down, but crashed due to a sandstorm, if I remember correctly.. Flying Boxcar transporting supplies for oil company if I remember story right..
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Amazing, you managed to nail it even with my rambling.
And there’s a full film on YouTube, it’s so so quality but I’m ofc going to watch it, thanks!
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Looks like a Focke Wolf 190, considered one of the better fighters in the Luftwaffe