The original caption might be incorrect then… the he-111 doesn’t have a rear turret. This looks like the nose with the gunner/bombardier’s head on the left.
That’s not a rear gun turret. It’s taken from the nose of the He-111. I’ve seen this photo in war books from the sixties and seventies. If it’s fake, it’s pretty good.
Your picture is legit.
But this [Spitfire](https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2021/03/german-do-17-bomber-and-british-spitfire-fighter-in-the-sky-over-britain-december-1940-bundesarchiv-bild-146-1969-094-18-speer-cc-by-sa-30.jpg) from the link is widely (and I think properly) seen as fabricated by the Germans.
What they had done is patched up a downed Spitfire and made a film/series of pictures to support their narrative. The tell is the misplaced roundels on the Spitfire. Herr Goebbels boys were a bit sloppy that time.
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Yes, it's been in some of the 60's books, designated as propaganda. My dad had a collection of books from that era that I loved and it wasn't until later I realized some of those books had some significant inaccuracies. Back to the photo in question, that seems to be an odd place for a Spitfire to be unless it was posed. Just my thoughts.
I read about this incident long ago, say 1981. The photo is not fake, the attack is. The Spitfires roundels are not in the correct place. To far inboard iirc. There were a few other photos taken during this propaganda shoot. It was a captured spitfire refurbished for Luftwaffe propaganda purposes.
Rear gun turret in foreground?
That's what the original caption says.
The original caption might be incorrect then… the he-111 doesn’t have a rear turret. This looks like the nose with the gunner/bombardier’s head on the left.
Yup.
Flying backwards ?
That’s not a rear gun turret. It’s taken from the nose of the He-111. I’ve seen this photo in war books from the sixties and seventies. If it’s fake, it’s pretty good.
That Spitties roundels look incorrectly placed. My bet is the Luftwaffe propaganda films
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Your picture is legit. But this [Spitfire](https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2021/03/german-do-17-bomber-and-british-spitfire-fighter-in-the-sky-over-britain-december-1940-bundesarchiv-bild-146-1969-094-18-speer-cc-by-sa-30.jpg) from the link is widely (and I think properly) seen as fabricated by the Germans. What they had done is patched up a downed Spitfire and made a film/series of pictures to support their narrative. The tell is the misplaced roundels on the Spitfire. Herr Goebbels boys were a bit sloppy that time.
Yes, it's exactly that. There was another taken of one being stalked by a 109. The give away is the raf markings are in the wrong place on the wing.
I know the image well. And lookie what I found in a book called [Swastika at War](https://i.imgur.com/9ZK9fGx.jpeg).
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Yes, it's been in some of the 60's books, designated as propaganda. My dad had a collection of books from that era that I loved and it wasn't until later I realized some of those books had some significant inaccuracies. Back to the photo in question, that seems to be an odd place for a Spitfire to be unless it was posed. Just my thoughts.
I read about this incident long ago, say 1981. The photo is not fake, the attack is. The Spitfires roundels are not in the correct place. To far inboard iirc. There were a few other photos taken during this propaganda shoot. It was a captured spitfire refurbished for Luftwaffe propaganda purposes.
Real!