[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Back in the 1960s there was a booklet published by, IIRC, Heinz Nowarra, that had a front view of a belly landed 109E that was captioned as one of Marseille's BoB FL. It might have been a publication called "Star of Africa." I'll have to look for my copy of this and I'll post it if I can locate it. I seem to remember seeing a couple of views of this same a/c in Jochen Prien's unidentified 109 file as well. I have no proof that this was really one of Marseille's FL, but that's what Nowarra's caption said. JFV Volume 4/II (Battle of Britain period), by Prien et.al. does not have that photo in it for coverage of I.(J)./LG2 so it seems that Dr. Prien's team must have had some skepticism as to the identity of this FL 109. However, there is a photo of Marseille standing by the nose of his a/c in that volume. No markings really visible.

I would very much like to document one of Marseille's a/c from his BoB period, but to my knowledge nothing definitive has ever come to light. I think I also once exchanged emails a few years ago with Dr. Jim Kitchens, who published a book on Marseille's 109s, and his comment was that no verifiable photos of M's a/c from the BoB had ever surfaced to his knowledge.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator