Inflatable German dinghy by G. H. Davis
Saving the Luftwaffe: an inflatable dinghy for defeated German airmen. It was carried by the larger German aircraft during the Second World War. Below is a photograph showing pilots of a British Spitfire squadron with a German collapsible rubber dinghy, discovered among the wreckage of a Junkers 87 plane which had been attacking a convoy at sea. It was shot down, and crash landed
Picture No
10652696
Media ID
46102049
Size
4383px x 6025px
(4.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by George Horace Davis in The Illustrated London News', 22 February 1941, page 245
Date
1941
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