World War II Chronicle: August 10, 1942
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Pictured on page three is a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter recently captured by the Royal Air Force (RAF). On June 23 Oberleutnant Armin Faber shot down a Czech pilot flying for the RAF but became disoriented after his dogfight over southwest England. Separated from his flight, he headed north over the Bristol Channel, thinking he was making his way south across the English Channel. Spotting RAF Pembrey, he wagged his wings to signal his victory and was taken prisoner when the ground crew met the Luftwaffe pilot. His Fw 190 has been repainted and is being analyzed by the Air Fighting Development Unit and No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight — the “Rafwaffe.” While mistaking a British air base for a German field seems like a pretty big screw-up, two other Fw-190 pilots will have made the same mistake by this time next year…
Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, former Commanding General of the First Air Force, is in Moscow determining how to better provide military aid to the Soviet Union. Last year his son 1st Lt. Follett Bradley Jr. was the first Army Air Force casualty in Britain when his B-17 was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm…
Sports section begins on page 12, featuring a photo of Chicago White Sox third baseman Bob Kennedy as he is inducted into the Navy. More on Kennedy here.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 10 August 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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