Two policemen in a parade in New York City: one riding a motorcycle and the second riding in a side car with mounted machine gun
- May 1918
23 June 1942, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Armin Faber accidentally lands his Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane in South Wales, handing the Allies one of Germany’s most advanced aircraft.
Disoriented in a dogfight (which he won, shooting down his opponent), Faber mistakes the Bristol Channel for the English Channel; instead of flying south to France, he flies north to Wales. Waggling his wings in victory as he lands at RAF Pembrey, dumbfounded but quick thinking British ground crews, realizing what is happening, direct the plane to park. The airfield duty pilot, Sergeant Jeffreys, jumps on the wing of the aircraft and takes Faber prisoner with a flare pistol — the airfield was for training only and did not have anything more lethal. Faber, realizing his terrible mistake, tries, unsuccessfully, to commit suicide.
Faber will spend most of the war in Canada as a POW. Painted in RAF colors, the Allies will fly and test the Fw-190, helping to developing techniques to use against it in combat.
Crow camp. Early 1900s. Montana. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society