Rot 5 (Red Five), WNr 1256, an Italian-built Reggiane Re.2002 of the Luftwaffe’s Geschwader Bongart, hit by the French partisans and crashed on Amboiras, 30 km SE Limoges. The fuselage of this aircraft is today exposed inside the Musée de la Resistance at Limoges. For the complete history of this aircraft and of the Geschwader Bongart see http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/661496-3/RE2002LW. Victor Sierra

Red Five down

In front to a destroyed hangar a young man and a kid, likely of the German retreat, end May 1944, studying the wreck of an abandoned German aircraft on Lyon-Bron airport. The aircraft is an Italian-built Reggiane Re.2002 fighter-bomber used by the Luftwaffe’s Stab/Geschwader Bongart for anti-partisan role flying from many French airports where some airplanes of this type was destroyed on the ground by Allied air raids. Lyon-Bron was one of them. Victor Sierra

German Re.2002 at Lyon

German reconnaissance plane Focke-Wulf Fw-189 ("Rama") after an emergency landing on its belly. 

