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Re: Bf 109 wr.nr.1289
Hello,
I've studied this one carefully and have photos of both a/c, including W.Nr.1289 on a French AF before it FL in Britain. The South Africa 109 apparently arrived in SA without a tail, which had been removed and attached to W.Nr.6313 to make it whole, after someone probably souvenired the swastica from the tail of W.Nr.6313. So to make it whole for display purposes, someone removed the tail from the SA example (1289), and installed it on the one headed for the USA, which explains why to this day, the SA plane has no tail. Apparently there was no tail available for the SA one and it was sent without one.
Regards,
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