The Snapshots in Time Collection

Wrecked German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Fighter Aircraft, Salzburg Area, Germany/Austria

Wrecked German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Fighter Aircraft, Salzburg Area, Germany/Austria

A destroyed German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter lies abandoned in a field near Salzburg, its swastika tail marking and national crosses still visible amid the wreckage. Scenes like this were common across Austria and southern Germany in the final days of World War II in Europe, as advancing American forces, including the 101st Airborne Division, overran Luftwaffe airfields littered with destroyed and abandoned aircraft in May 1945. Project: 218246