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Great stuff, Ed... especially the photo album collection... :)

Ed,

As always, a very nice collection !

The fake ship is actually the Hotel Normandie (was built in 1936) and is still in use at Koksijde (Belgium).

Best regards from Belgium.

Luc

So it's not a fake ship. OK :)

Ed

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Hi all:

Any info on plane and pilot?

I must admit not being able to assure that it is an F or a G. Perhaps the tailwheel looks as belonging to a G-4 or G-6, but the canopy frame looks narrow, as belonging to an F...

About the tail band, I am almost sure that it is yellow, but it's width, together with the third Gruppe bar, is not according to any Russian front unit, as far as I know (apart from I/JG53 in 1942).

The vertical bar would mean III/JG3 or III/JG51 but the tail band is always narrow in these units.

Speaking of a Gruppenkommandeur of those two units, the victory marks would be right for Karl-Heinz Greisert in June-July/1942 and for nobody else in that time, considering that the photo is not taken in winter.

If the photo was taken in 1943, I don't have enough information.

I would apreciate very much your comments.

Regards

Saludos

Miguel,

The first thing to pop into my head when I saw this photo earlier today was Wolf Dietrich Wilke, III/JG 53.

Don

Hi Don,

You are right and I think also that it is Wilcke's plane in September 1941.

My mistake was the possibility of being a G model.

Thank you very much