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1945 - 1807.PDF
SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1945 u-^r '••V, • (Left) This double row of Fw 190s lined up a* Flensburg with their airscrews removed and awaiting disposal, indicates that the Luftwaffe fighter strength '-', was by no means exhausted. Fuel shortage probably '•'.• grounded them. •the most obvious evidence of an overwhelming defeat, ling the military machine itself being systematically I apart by their conquerors before their very eyes. Bar as the Luflwaffe is concerned, liquidation is being [thoroughly carried out by" the Air Disarmament working under the direction of the British Air of Occupation, who are using Luftwaffe personnel I the actual work of clearing up, dismantling, sorting poring their own equipment—the dog is very properly j made to fetch his own muzzle. toe pictures were taken on airfields in Denmark where j.A.F. experts are directing the important task of dis- and immobilising German aircraft and classifying ment into various categories. Some of it is wanted Igland for technical research (an unfortunate omission til). A number of German aircraft were also brought |s country for the exhibition in Hyde Park, on, as illustrated on p. 278. . , i ' '.•> *° *':.:'ii.^'.'f. (Above; The German radar equivalent of A.I. may have been efficient but it was not exactly neat, as witness the antenna of this Me no night-fighter being prepared by a German ground crew for dispatch to Britain. (Left) Few jobs could be better guaranteed to impress the fact of their defeat on the men of the Luftwaffe than the one on which this German is engaged —that of painting R.A.F. martc- ings and the words " Air Ministry " on a Messerschmit Me no fighter. Whether, after all that has happened to Ger- many as a result of following another' painter in search of world conquest, this particular one has at last learnt the folly of the hcrrenvolk theory on; cannot say, but the attitude ol the German N.C.O watching him suggests a resigned in- difference. This particular air craft was one destined to be flown to England by an R.A.F pilot. it £ "S. 1 ..f . v
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