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Re: Bf109E W.Nr2023
Mark,
The model is definitely the problem, but then again the loss reports are full of this sort of typos. The type in this case was definitely reported as 109B - I went through both document sets (BA-MA Signatur RL 2 III/772, Flzg.Unfälle bei Schulen und usw.; BA-MA Signatur RL 2 III/782, Flzg.Unfälle bei Schulen und usw.). They are essentially the same, but in many cases one might be more legible than the other, and there were different handwritten comments on either set - so if the typo was mine I'm completely blind!!
There were units that also seemed to get all the 'hand me downs' other than JG 5. JG 51 flew the Bf 109F-2 well into mid-summer 1942, when other units had gone to the F-4 and early Gs. I think in that case, the plan had been to convert the whole unit to the 190, but, for whatever reason, that didn't happen. Problems in development, the increasing threat along the Channel/North Sea coast, slower than expected production?
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