Flying Fortress captured

neat stuff!

The U.S. and the British had special units whose job it was to "capture" and send back to the U.S., or the UK, one of every type of armor, aircraft, guns, etc. in the ETO as well as the PTO. The various weapons would be tested and evaluated. The enemy obviously did the same thing.

The Japanese got those B-17s from Clark Field. Their primary interest was in the bomb sight and integrated flight control systems, something much better than they had.

Go to Wings Palette website. You can view hundreds of different aircrafts from WW1 - Modern Day. Click on any aircraft during WW2 and you'll see plenty of pictures of aircraft by aircraft type/name captured by the ***, Japan, Russia, UK and USA.

http://wp.scn.ru/

Oh yeah - I get most of my inspirations from here too.

Actually the D model is from Clark, and the E models are from Java.  No E models were based in the Philippines except for the Royce Missions. And the first German captured B-17 was the F model "Wulfe Hound" from the 303rd BG. Another interesting tidbit is that in 1945 American photo analysts noted that a new Japanese 4-engined bomber with a scaled out wingspan of 104 feet appeared at their test center. I wonder which one of the B-17's it was, the D or E model?