Thread: Bf 109E3 5.JG52 Red 1 Oblt. August-Wilhelm Schumann based in Mannheim-Sandhofen Nov-D
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Old 12-27-2013, 02:01 PM
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Bf 109E-3 1./JG76 White 1 WNr 1304 Frankfurt Nov 1939.
'white 1' of 1./JG76 landed by mistake at the French Strasbourg-Woerth airfield on 22nd November 1939 due to fog.
Basically a major SNAFU pilot got lost in the fog and landed in France giving the French a lovely Bf 109 intact and allowing them to gain valuable intell not that it did them much good. Their own Government did more harm in allowing their country and their air force to fall way behind in technology.
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