[Epapazian]

Originally Posted by Cruver Collecter

Have to go with 2) Joachim Munchdeberg with the whole ramming verses collision debate of his last mission.

Muncheberg and Marseille both died more or less accidentally while flying combat missions, however I was referring to Molders. An passionate anti-Nazi, Molders fell into extreme disfavor with the higher-ups and then was reported to have died in an air "accident". Various sources maintain that Molders was thrown out of a HE-111 he was riding in by Nazi thugs, who later tried to cover up their crime.

[Captain Eddie]

Originally Posted by Epapazian

Muncheberg and Marseille both died more or less accidentally while flying combat missions, however I was referring to Molders. An passionate anti-Nazi, Molders fell into extreme disfavor with the higher-ups and then was reported to have died in an air "accident". Various sources maintain that Molders was thrown out of a HE-111 he was riding in by Nazi thugs, who later tried to cover up their crime.

That is terrible...not suprising, but terrible...and after all he did for the Fatherland.

[Cruver Collecter]

Kind of jumping back to the Devastor question, but just found an interesting web site. It seems two more Devastors have been found on the bottom of Jaluit lagoon in the Marhsall Islands. Maybe there may be hope for seeing one in a museum some time in the far future.

Site: To Save a Devastator

[Epapazian]

Lets talk dive bombers.

In 1940 the British purchasing commission requested U.S. manufacturers to design a new dive bomber---a category where the UK was seriously deficient in relative to Germany, the U.S. and, as would soon be seen, Japan. This resulted in the Vultee Vengeance. approximately 300 of these went to the USAAF under the designation A-35, and they were generally regarded as of little value, except as target towers in gunnery training exercises. The RAF took 1200 Vengeances into service and, unlike the U.S., used them fairly extensively in combat. In what combat zone were Vengeances employed to the best effect by the RAF?

1) North Africa
2) Italy
3) Burma/India
4) Northern Europe
5) Greece

[Wespen109]

Another question:

Who was the only German pilot to have escaped captivity in Canada and make it back to Germany? Which British pilot apprehended once again in september 1940?

[Epapazian]

Originally Posted by Wespen109

Another question:

Who was the only German pilot to have escaped captivity in Canada and make it back to Germany? Which British pilot apprehended once again in september 1940?

WASN'T THAT Von Werra?

[Wespen109]

Originally Posted by Epapazian

WASN'T THAT Von Werra?

It was indeed. And the pilot who shot him down?

[Cruver Collecter]

Originally Posted by Epapazian

Lets talk dive bombers.

In 1940 the British purchasing commission requested U.S. manufacturers to design a new dive bomber---a category where the UK was seriously deficient in relative to Germany, the U.S. and, as would soon be seen, Japan. This resulted in the Vultee Vengeance. approximately 300 of these went to the USAAF under the designation A-35, and they were generally regarded as of little value, except as target towers in gunnery training exercises. The RAF took 1200 Vengeances into service and, unlike the U.S., used them fairly extensively in combat. In what combat zone were Vengeances employed to the best effect by the RAF?

1) North Africa

2) Italy

3) Burma/India

4) Northern Europe

5) Greece

Have to go with 3) Burma/India.

[Epapazian]

Originally Posted by Cruver Collecter

Have to go with 3) Burma/India.

That's right. Several squadrons used this plane in that area until the end of the war.

[Epapazian]

Originally Posted by Wespen109

It was indeed. And the pilot who shot him down?

I cheated and looked this one up. It was Basil Stapme.