Me 109 G5 or G6 ?
 

Maybe some of you already know the pic I use as an avatar ...
I am a modeller and wanted to build the "white seven" from 7/JG 27 one can see in the background. According to various sources (among them squadron signal's 109 in action which shows another pic and which is supposed to be reliable) this was a flock of G5s in january 1944 over adratic... except that I found this pic the one I use that is) that clearly shows that the "white two" actually was a G6 and found informations about the "white nine" and they claim it was a G6 too ... so what am I to think of the "white seven" ?
checking the "kia files" from JG 27 it seems that no pilot was lost flying a G5 ... I am about to think that squadron signal has it all wrong ..; the problem beeing that my model is already finished and converted from a g6 to a g5 ...
can anyone help ?

Re: Me 109 G5 or G6 ?
 

Gibson,

The verical bar, does that not denote III Gruppen? This site, http://www.ww2.dk has no G-5 listed until Oct '44 (2), with III./JG27. (not saying this site is correct, though)

To bad you don't have a starboard side pic, for then you can be sure of the model.

S/S also says they are from 9./JG27, though you say 7./JG27.

Re: Me 109 G5 or G6 ?
 

Hi Gibson:

The aircraft are G-6 machines. The unit had a few G-5/AS machines here and there but these were conversions.

As the author of the Squadron book, I can say that it does have errors. It was written in the 1970s based on our knowledge then. There have been lots of advances since.

Re: Me 109 G5 or G6 ?
 

the "seven" is definitely white and not yellow so it has to be 7/jG27

Re: Me 109 G5 or G6 ?
 

dear mr Beaman.
1- thank you for this book which gave me (and keeps giving me) so many hours of pleasure. I'm pretty sure I could recite it as I've been reading it over and over.
2- you owe me a new canopy for my 1/48 hasegawa G6 !
;o)