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Provenance of an Fw 190 photo


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I'm curious if anybody knows the provenance of a photo at the National Museum of the USAF (NMUSAF). I assume it's contemporaneous, but I can't imagine it anything but a publicity photo with a captured aircraft. Google tells me it's widely used, but the uses appear to credit the NMUSAF. Does anybody have authoritative information about this photo?

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2001906808/

 

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It's an interesting discussion, I'd always believed that Fw was short for Flugzeugwerke, as in Focke Wulf Flugzeugwerke and not for Focke Wulf. As always, I stand to be corrected if necessary!

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On ‎12‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 12:07 AM, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

If memory serves you are correct the photo i believe was a captured Fw. It was taken over central ohio during testing. Somebody replaced the star & bars that had been painted on by editing & imposing crosses and swastika for publicity. 

Pretty good memory, Dennis!

 

The photo is of an Fw-190G-3 werk nummer  160016, which was captured and ended up at Wright Field, OH with numerous other airworthy Axis aircraft for evaluation. The scheme visible in the photo is a spurious one applied after capture. IIRC, it was also flown and put on static display at a couple of airshows after the war along with other captured airplanes. I don't recall what happened to it, but I think it was ultimately scrapped due to being ground-looped, but my memory's a little fuzzy on that. I also recall seeing a photo of it somewhere with the wing and fuselage bomb racks installed, as the G was a dedicated ground attack version of the Fw-190. There is also a photo I have seen that shows the same Fw-190at Wright with the FP of the original factory code DN+FP freshly painted over a spurious fuselage band and an oversized swastika also applied. (They really had some imaginative painters at Wright Field- looks like the box art on an old Lindberg kit!) You can do a search for 'captured Fw-190G-3' to see more photos.

Mike

 

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/focke-wulf-fw-190/

 

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/aircrafts-2/focke_wulf_fw_190/focke-wulf-fw-190-g-3-dnfp-2/

 

http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW6/FW190-A5-(DN+FP)-83f.jpg

 

https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Fw-190A/SG4/pages/Focke-Wulf-Fw-190G3-SG4-Sktz-DN+FP-WNr-160016-Salerno-1944-0A.html

 

 

 

 

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Thanks Mike @72modeler ... I do way to much research and remember so many things. But I don't always remember where i found/read them. Glad to hear that i got it close to correct. Yes i believe you're correct about the G. I also believe the F/G had extended range, similar to the B/R Ju-87’s ? The F series was ground attack, the G extended range ground attack. The A/D series were the Air to Air fighters. Though as the war progressed i believe everything was used for everything.  

 

Dennis

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