In the years of WW2 many aircraft of Axis and Allied forceslanded or crashed in Swiss territory because or unables at to go in base due to damages or technical troubles or, simply, defection. In this photo an USAAF "Flying Fortress", the B-17F secode QW-V, of 336th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bombardment Group, based in England, landed in Swtizerland, at Altenrhein Airport, on the 13 April 1944 because Flak damages during a missione over Germany. After landing the aircraft and its crew were interned in Switzerland. Note the Swiss markings affixed at the aircraft later returned to USAAF on the 27 August 1945.
On the 13 April 1944, in addition to this plane, eight other American bomber (B-17 and B-24) landed in Switzerland, while a B-17G crashed at Siebnen.

Several B-17 and B-24 got the distinctive Swiss Cross markings, the first ones because the Swiss flew the plains ub & down the country for " experimental" reasons.

The later ones got swiss markings for "transfer flights" to the gathering point for "interned" aircraft ad Dübendorf Airfield..
Surely a strange view, a Swiss B-17, but they existed..

After the war, all planes were returned to btitain, and from there back to the USA.

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