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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by Snautzer (Post 265857)

#1609 Bernburg?

Yup, this is the famous rig with the damaged left wing Fw 190.

Cheers
Marc

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

A couple of thoughts about the belly-landed Ju 87 D-5:

The Alpine location is consistent with the last days of NSG 9, when some of its aircraft did not complete their withdrawal from Thiene to Innsbruck.
The camouflage looks like NSG 9's characteristic scheme.
The white spinner with narrow spiral doesn't.
There is a yellow individual letter on the starboard side which at first I took for a C or G (but E8+GL is already accounted for, backed into the barn at Innsbruck).
The 17 on the tail would be consistent with 3./NSG 9's earlier incarnation as 2./NSG 2, in which case 17 = Q. So maybe E8+QL. However, I'm not sure these numbers survived the application of NSG 9 camouflage once the unit arrived in Italy and was renamed.
MG 151/20 barrel on the port wing but apparently missing from the starboard.

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

Well done RudiS, find that D-9 was excellent!

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by ChrisS (Post 265940)

Well done RudiS, find that D-9 was excellent!

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

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Originally Posted by RudiS (Post 265935)

The RVB tailband looks to be white-black, hence a I./JG 26 machine in Northern Germany ?

Cheers
Marc

Re: eBAy: Captured german planes