gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Interesting article on the how the RAF Museum’s Junkers Ju 88 came to arrive in the UK in May 1943. It mentions that other German aircraft landed in Britain during the war and took off again. Even mentions that the RAF did the same in Germany. Does anyone know any-more about it? http://www.britainatwar.com/view_issue.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossian Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Ah, a good excuse to bump my question on the same subject: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234932849 There is a book "The Great Coup" by Robert Hill which covers the Ju88 landing in detail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 interesting times eh? I'd love to see what interesting stuff that's still under the official secrets act for the second world war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 Ah, a good excuse to bump my question on the same subject: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234932849 There is a book "The Great Coup" by Robert Hill which covers the Ju88 landing in detail oooo i must get a copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossian Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 oooo i must get a copy! Mine is a Corgi paperback, from 1977 Doesn't seem to be in print at the moment, but is available 2nd hand: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=robert+hill+great+coup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Graham Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 It might be worth your while searching the archives on 12 O'Clock High and Luftwaffe Experten Message Board. This flight (and others) have been discussed and (IIRC) there was some doubt expressed over certain elements in the Hill book. Hardly surprising given the circumstances surrounding it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 I wouldn't mind finding out if British planes landing in Germany and taking off was true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossian Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I remember reading "Reach for the Sky" (the Douglas Bader biography) and it says that after he was shot down, the Luftwaffe suggested his spare leg was delivered by a Lysander, with a British fighter escort being replaced by a German one in mid Channel. The RAF reply was "no, we'll just drop it on a normal bombing raid" (which they did) This seems to suggest the idea of landing on "the other side" was not unheard of but, like Gruffy, I would like to find out more. The Hill book was published before R V Jones' "Most Secret War" (1978) and not long after Fred Winterbotham's "The Ultra Secret" (1974) so I am not surprised it is not the full story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 Interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Vor!!! Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 so is it true that the junker had a beaufighter escort over the channel??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Graham Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 No, because it was met by Spitfires in the north of Scotland. Well, off the Scottish coast anyway, it landed at Dyce. IIRC, the comments raised were not about what was omitted from the Hill book, but what the author may have added. But take that as a comment to look for, not as gospel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 so is it true that the junker had a beaufighter escort over the channel??? Later the ju88 was escorted by beaufighters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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