Group: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
From: Bill Shatzer
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Luftwaffe copies of Japanese planes

Geoffrey Sinclair wrote:

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> As far as I know while there were various German types shipped to
> Japan no complete aircraft went the other way.

The German raider Orion picked up a Nakajima E4N courtesy of the
Japanese to replace its Arado seaplane.

I seem to recall though that the Nakajima was lost before Orion
completed its cruise and returned to Germany so perhaps this doesn't count.

Cheers,