That's the one. The pilot, P/O (Sous Lt) Bernard Scheidhauer, was taken prisoner. In March 1944 he was Sqn Ldr Roger Bushells escape partner from Stalag Luft III. He and Roger were shot by the Gestapo close to Saarbrucken on the morning of 29 march 1944.
Credits for the photographs would be appropriate, especially the one on the right which is from my collection.
I supplied them with much information which included the photograph of Bernard William Martial Scheidhauer of the Free French Air Force. Crash landed in Jersey 18 November 1942. I was responsible for a memorial to him unveiled by his sister 17 September 1999. I've also advised on several TV programmes and contributed photographs to many recent books on the Great Escape. The Three That Got Away Photos: (Bram van der Stok, Bernard Scheidhauer) Courtesy of Ian Le Seuer Though they spelt my surname wrong.
While researching a certain OTU on the interweb this evening I cam across these photos of the Memorial I arranged to Bernard Scheidhauer in 1999. These maybe of interest to you, they maybe not. http://www.finalysys.com/users/jpix/20051128/default.htm
A captured He 115 was used for clandestine ops out of Malta. Mostly flying to and from North Africa. It is mentioned in Charles Lamb's War in A Stringbag. Was in full German marking still so not really relevant but my 2 cents to this thread! LOL
Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110D "The Belle of Berlin" in British markings on a landing ground in North Africa. This aircraft served with II/ZG76 in Iraq and was captured after crash-landing near Mosul in May 1941. It was used as a communications aircraft and later as a unit 'hack' by No.267 Squadron RAF.
Not in enemy markings, but I found this interesting nonetheless... Spitfires (mainly Mk V's, with a few Mk IX's) were used by the USAAF both in Europe and the Med during 1942-3, and USAAF pilots were credited with 256 victories while flying Spitfires in this period. One source claimed that the Spitfire in USAAF service had the second best kill to loss ratio of fighters used by the USAAF in the ETO/MTO, after the P-51.
Just seen this American FW190 in the Gallery. http://www.ww2talk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=735 Anyone know anymore about it?
FW 190F W NR Unknown This aircraft was captured following the Luftwaffe 'Operation Bodenplatte' - the last major offensive by the Luftwaffe in the West. This took place on NYs Day 1945. The FW 190 concerned wore the marks '1-1-45' on its fin and rudder after capture, commerating that event. It force landed on the airfield at St Trond in Belgium, the base of 404th Fighter Group, US 9th AAF. Photos taken at St Trond on 18th March 1945 after it had been repaired and painted bright red overall. It wore the letter 'L'. Though not clear, it was probably used for evaluation. From "War Prizes" by Phil Butler. The book has a picture from a different angle which shows the 'L' code but not the 00.
There is a really good article about the capture and subsequent evaluation flights of a Fw190A-4 in 1943 in the first issue (May 2007) of "Britain at war" magazine. With some excellent pictures of it wearing RAF colours. I would expect back issues are still avaliable. http://britain-at-war-magazine/may2007ed.htm