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Re: Need ID of this Bf110 with 10 victory tabs
Hello,
The W.Nr. and the "FM" of the code are not in dispute, but what bothers me about this image is the absence of any shark's mouth design on the nose. I suppose that this could be a newly assigned a/c that in the heat of operations during the Battle of Britain had not yet had this applied.
I have another series of photos of a fairly badly crashed M8+FM, WNr.3129, a C-2 that I think crashed near Zisserheim Germany on 12.5.40, Lt. Otto Krause killed. There would have probably have had to have been another replacement lost between then and this a/c to explain the absence of a shark's mouth nose on this a/c. WNr. 2638 was manufactured clear back in Nov., 1939, so I'm wondering how this gets to be a newly assigned a/c to a top ace of the time in Sept., 1940.
Anybody have any opinion about all this?
Regards,
Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator
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