[Stig Jarlevik]

Thanks Frank

Looking at Priens JFV 3 page 25 there are two Stab 109s having a similar marking <II, which is not possible to see in Asisbiz photo. Also the top photo on page 25 shows a 109 in similar markings.

Hands up I tend to trust more in Prien (a rather known quantity), while I have no idea who this Asisbiz is. This is of course no proof that Prien is correct, but if we assume he is, then we face a reversed scenario, that is a Stab II./JG 77 aircraft is transferred to Stab II./JG 27. How common was that? Somehow I don't find that very likely...

Then of course Asisbiz might be correct all along, although he does not quote any sources for HIS pictures and why he all of a sudden he can caption < II with such certainty as both being WNr 6453 and being in Bulgaria. Thanks by the way in identifying Belica and Strumatel as the same place!

Finally I have no way of telling if the photos have been taken either in Norway or Bulgaria, but it would not surprise me if the captions in JFV 3 page 25 both top and bottom are Stab II./JG 27 photos after all. I agree that the photocaption and loss record saying that <II is <B looks wrong and I wonder of course where it comes from. Anyone who has the loss record and what it says in original?

Anyway we have no way of saying, and I don't think Asisbiz can either, which of the <II is WNr 6453F, regardless of unit belonging.
Cheers
Stig