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The Germans really did capture a corsair

13.5k brians1209  4.2 years ago

CAPTURED CORSAIR:
Corsair JT404 of 1841 squadron. Involved in anti-submarine patrol from HMS Formidable enroute to Scapa after Operation Mascot against the German Battleship Tirpitz, in company with Barracuda of Wing Leader Lt Cdr RS Baker-Falkner. Emergency landing in a field at Sorvag, Hameroy, near Bodo, Norway on 18 July 1944. The pilot Lt Mattholie taken POW and the aircraft captured intact with no damage. The german authorities made attempts to get the pilot to explain how to fold the wings so as to transport the aircraft to Narvik. Aircraft was ferried by boat for further investigation. It is not known if the Corsair was taken to Germany. This was probably the first Corsair captured by the Germans. Aircraft is listed at Rechlin for 1944 under repair.

I'm quite surprised the Germans captured a Corsair,
I thought the Corsairs were only flying around the Pacific ocean.

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    Yeet bois

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    Germany: well well well how the turn tables

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    10.3k ManfredaoBR

    German corsair intensifies

    4.2 years ago
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    @brians1209 Obviously the Russians would not have just made civilian use of the Jet, Churchill during WWII had already foreseen that there would be a cold war, the USSR had to compete with the USA at all costs, moreover in their place I would have does the same.
    It was after the Second World War that Great Britain lost its military power and its weight on the world; victory paradoxically destroyed it.

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    13.5k brians1209

    @CharlesDeGaulle The Russians made their own jet engines by copying a British RollsRoyce Nene engine, which was promised to be ONLY civilian uses, but they just shoved it in the MiG-15 (Britain made a huge mistake)

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    @brians1209
    Yes, the British gave some technology to the Americans, like a new model of radar. The Russians, in fact, were quite a distance from the others, they relied mainly on number (in a tank battle, you almost had to sacrifice 10 T-34s for a Tiger tank ...)
    , the Soviet army being gigantic compared to the German army, their first fighter plane, the mig-9 came out in 1946, luckily for them, they were able to capture German technologies, and study them.

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    13.5k brians1209

    @CharlesDeGaulle German was at the top, Brit was next, then U.S,(they invented afterburners in 1943, but they got alot of help from Britain), and Russia didn't even have jet tech.

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    @brians1209 That's right, but don't forget the he-178, the first German jet, in 1939. On the other hand, the me-262 was much faster and more agile than the Meteor.

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    13.5k brians1209

    @CharlesDeGaulle Also don't forget the Brits, they also made the jet engine (at the exact same year, and both inventors were at the same age XD)
    They made the Meteor and they used it in WW2 too. (To intercept V1 buzzbombs)

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    @brians1209 Yes, the German scientists were ahead of their time, look at the V2, or the Ho-229, they are the ones who designed the 1st jet fighter.

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    13.5k brians1209

    @CharlesDeGaulle Also the F-86's were actually designed to have straight wings but they changed it to swept wings after they got the swept wing research information from German scientists.

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    The Germans have captured Allied planes, like the Allies have captured German planes, in short, it's war. Let us not forget that the winners of the war captured the German scientists afterwards, and that thanks to them, the Appolo project existed.

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    im sorry to say it but that corsair doesn't look right.

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    3,300 Subnerdica

    dang now we gotta work harder to make sh*tposts. German millennium falcon maybe?

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    33.0k SyntheticL

    o u c h

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    55.4k Beefy

    @asteroidbook345 I'll look into it

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    55.4k Beefy

    @asteroidbook345 yeah but the Corsair was in the Pacific

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    I like to read long wall of text...

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    29.0k Mattangi2

    this one doesnt have airbrakes

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    That is a Focke-Wulf Ta 152 Moskito. Not the one from de Havilland.
    @NightmareCorporation

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    7,109 Bearclaw189

    Yeah those two books I mentioned were great @Strikefighter04

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    Very nice! I did not know about the F4Fs against the 109s @Bearclaw189

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    7,109 Bearclaw189

    Read my mini essay lol@Strikefighter04

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    7,109 Bearclaw189

    -ft was heavily damaged, but he managed to drop his bombs on the enemy ship. His aircraft crashed killing Gray, he was awarded the Victoria cross. Some great books about the RN Aviation in WW2 are Royal Navy Aces of WW2 by Andrew Thomas, and Kamikaze Hunters by Will Iredale

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    That German is Mosquito is sexy af @NightmareCorporation

    4.2 years ago
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