Kampfgeschwader 200 during World War two, carried out test flights on a large number of captured aircraft, Attachment 161032Attachment 161033Attachment 161034
The unit also carried out a variety of special missions, like parachuting spies behind enemy lines, operating radar-jamming aircraft, carrying out long-range transport flights to Japan, clandestine bombing missions and infiltrating American bomber formations with captured aircraft in an attempt to spread confusion. However, most of the information concerning these missions comes from a single POW and is doubted by several aviation history researchers. On 1 December 1943 a B-17 was sighted with the letters "D" above another identification letter "B"
It also had a square marking, that of the 303rd Bomb Group. This was the identity of B-17F-111-BO 42-30604 Badger Beauty V, actually from the 350th Bomb Group of the "Bloody Century" 100 BG, which used the "square-D" tail marking in service. This machine was captured but it was never repaired or used by the Luftwaffe. On the same day, a lone B-24 joined a bomber formation from the 44th Bomb Group. It was reported to have been a machine carrying the markings of a 392nd Bomb Group aircraft. However this unit did not become operational until 9 December.
On the other side of the world, three B-17s were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies. They were flown by the IJAAF Koku Gijutsu Kenkyujo (Air Technical Research Laboratory) at Tachikawa
Attachment 161031Attachment 161035 But there are no reports of captured Japanese planes, infiltrating American bomber groups
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