Profile image

A fun page from history I stumbled upon.. (WW2 related)

5,795 DragonAerotech  7.9 years ago

Check out this site, it is a pamphlet distributed to soldiers for aircraft recognition purposes in 1940, some are quite laughable due to lack of allied intelligence and likely a healthy dose of counter-intelligence on the part of the Reich Ministry. lol

http://www.allworldwars.com/Friend-or-Foe-Aircraft-Identification-1940.html

  • Log in to leave a comment
  • Profile image
    8,333 arcues

    @DragonAerotech becuese of the fussalage and turret plasment and engines i thought it was b 18

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    @arcues Twin boom?? O.o; B-18 Bolo? Hm .. actually the Bolo was a bomber built using many common components to the DC-2, which looked somewhat like a miniature DC-3/C-47. If you were commenting on the tri-tail "Ju-88," the B-18 had a single tail surface. The closest comparison I can come to, with that tail arrangement, was the "refined" Avro Manchester and the later Lockheed C-69 Constellation.

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image
    8,333 arcues

    i think its a b 18 bolo

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    xD @DragonAerotech

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    @MasterMindIndustries LOL Even my wife knows that she falls a bit behind WW2 military aviation and my kids. I'm not sure which of the latter two is first. Probably best not to think about it. XD j/k

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    my god is that some interest. now I bet you could write a book on that! its frickin amazing! 35 Years and love never died! amazing! :D Keep it going strong! :) @DragonAerotech

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    @MasterMindIndustries I've been hooked on WW2 military aviation for 35 years, since my father introduced me to model building as a young child. I distinctly remember my astonishment at learning that not only France but Poland too had an air force, with their own aircraft designs, in a book I found in my Junior High School library. Now I look back and wonder at my ignorance; How could I have thought otherwise? lol There are gaps in my knowledge though, my knowledge of the period is nearly entirely self taught and I'm always scouring the internet and various publications for new information. In recent years I've found great interest in obscure air forces from the second world war, such as Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Nationalist China, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. I'm also interested in learning how aircraft that were impressed (basically seized from civil operators) served in their military roles. By the way, I have NO idea what that twin boom pusher propeller plane they claimed to be a Nazi design was. ^_^

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    well clearly your knowledge is quite vast of aircraft history. how do you know so much? I think its a passion! and yes I did find something weird about the Ju-88 but nothing else simply because I didn't know about those stuff. well explained answer! :D @DragonAerotech

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    @MasterMindIndustries Your' name made me do a double take. A friend of mine from FFXI, who has sadly since passed away, played a char named MasterMind. Kevin Macie, former headliner pro-wrestler back in the '80s turned gamer. Ahem, let's see. The twin boom Nazi fighter was amusing, to my mind, what irony that the generation of jet fighters to follow the Meteor would look startlingly like that image. Then the spurious image of the Ju-88 with three tails I thought was funny - looked nothing like the real deal. The germans never used the Ju-86K that was an export model for Sweden and (I think) Hungary. The diesel powered Ju-86s were Ju-86Ds - by 1940 they were using the Ju-86Es with conventional "petrol" powered radial engines. Diesel powered Ju-86s wouldn't appear over British skies again until the high altitude Ju-86P and R variants in '42 or '43 which looked positively nothing like the old Ju-86s save for a few vestigial features. They flew so high that the British had to produce a new extremely high altitude capable Spitfire to intercept them. After that they served with complete immunity over the Eastern front.

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image

    i don't see the funny part. its a well explained pamphlet

    7.9 years ago
  • Profile image
    101k Wallaby

    lel

    7.9 years ago