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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

Is is possible that the photo in #1262 shows a late Bf 109G or K from JG 26?
It looks like a black and white band behind the cross.

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Post 1262: this late war Bf 109 G displays a two coloured RVB band compatible with JG 5 and JG 301. The latter is well documented in the ETO.

Thanks, RudiS !
Marc

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

Re #1265-Jim Crow collection has another image of this wreckage with the location identified as Bron/Lyon. No other info.

ArtieBob

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Originally Posted by ArtieBob (Post 255929)

Re #1265-Jim Crow collection has another image of this wreckage with the location identified as Bron/Lyon. No other info.

ArtieBob

I doubt if that's correct since although there was one Ju 88 found at Bron (no details recorded) there was no Me 410, as seen in the foreground. Both those types were found at Salon but none of the Ju 88s there had the W.Nr. 330177 nor the code letters GL.

The reverse of the photo shows that it has been removed from an album and the caption torn. "…is, France" is legible. So, we need somewhere else where there were both a Ju 88 S-3 and an Me 410. In France there are few possibilities for the latter type since the only ones still there by D-Day—so far as I recall—would have belonged to II./KG 51, 1.(F)/121 or 1.(F)/33 and none of those units had very many. Ju 88 S were more common of course.

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That is strange looking 'G'. To me looks more like a '5' or possibly a 'S'.

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Originally Posted by Kutscha (Post 255935)

That is strange looking 'G'. To me looks more like a '5' or possibly a 'S'.

Enlarging it, I think it's a stencilled G but I wouldn't say so with certainty.

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GL or 5L. A most unusual, to me, tail marking. It is different from the three part transport codes.