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| Picture No | 10652696 |
| Date | 1941 |
| Description | Inflatable German dinghy by G. H. Davis |
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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.
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| Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 22 February 1941, p245 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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