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Lifted from an aviation site key.aero. The consensus is that Fokker was simply a euphemism for what the pilots of the Messerschmitts needed and not the Dutch manufacturer. There are other versions but this is the one I remember:
Not quite your punchline but the famous (fictional) S/Ldr Paderewski was visiting a famous girls school and was asked by the head teacher to describe a typical action.
"Vell - I vas flying along in my Spitfire when I spotted these fokkers in the distance, I dived on them and shot two of the fokkers down, then did a quick roll came up underneath them and shot down another couple of fokkers - the other fokkers flew away in panic"
As the girls were giggling at this the head teacher said - "Of course what S/Ldr Paderewski means by fokkers is that these were the German Focke Wulf 190, isn't that correct S/ldr?"
"Certainly is generally - but in this instance these fokkers were Messerchmitt's"
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Last edited by Varley; 13th October 2021 at 10:59.
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