1945 Freeman Field Airshow
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1945 Freeman Field Airshow
I hope this URL works otherwise just cut and paste into your web browser.
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Seymour, Indiana (IN).
"Air Technical Service Command", Foreign Aircraft Evaluation Center.
Thanks for the link, what an amazing sight-Ar234, Hs219, Me163, Me410 and a Ju290 landing.
www.freemanfield.org/images/data/freeman_field_history.htm
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Thanks for the link, what an amazing sight-Ar234, Hs219, Me163, Me410 and a Ju290 landing.
www.freemanfield.org/images/data/freeman_field_history.htm
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A blast from the past!
This is a stunning post! How did they get all those rare, captured German A/C over to the US so quickly? Great to see - and combined with a Glenn Miller soundtrack - PFM
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How did they get all those rare, captured German A/C over to the US so quickly
Just coming to the end of reading 'Wings On My Sleeve' by Captain 'winkle' Brown and I was surprised by the amount of Luftwaffe a/c that were captured and then flown by him in the UK, so soon after the war. The USA obviously had similar opportunities,
ps Great music
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"The USA obviously had similar opportunities,"
War Prizes- Phil Butler- Midland Counties- ISBN 0 0904597 86 5.
ABE Books are a good source for this first edition.
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War Prizes- Phil Butler- Midland Counties- ISBN 0 0904597 86 5.
ABE Books are a good source for this first edition.
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The star of the show for me was the B-32 Dominator. The song ' I'll be looking at the moon and I'll be seeing you' must have been penned by the world's worst astronomer!
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' I'll be looking at the moon and I'll be seeing you' must have been penned by the world's worst astronomer!
Who had the most terrible squint.
With one of her eyes,
She could scan the whole skies,
While the other was reading small print."
Lear, I think.
Enough thread drift. 10:38 of wonderful and rare footage. I wonder what became of the captured aircraft. It would be nice to think they're all in a museum somewhere, but I doubt it.
