[Dave Wadman]

Vince,
I can confirm what Jon has said because when Martin Pegg & I selected the machine flown by Troha on 25/9/40 as a profile for our Jagdwaffe B of B 2/3 we had access to a number of sources regarding both Troha and Yellow 5 from which we drew the information for both the profile & caption.

Two such sources were based on the Crashed Enemy Aircraft Report and his interrogation reports from which the fundamental points were compiled as shown here below (note text in bold type):

"29/10/40 Bf 109E-3, coded Yellow 5 outlined black, cross, vertical bar, flown by Oblt. Egon Troha. West Court Farm at 1715 hrs. Nose was yellow and showed a red seahorse on a blue shield outlined yellow with white waves. 9./JG 3. Started 1700 hrs on a freelance patrol. The Staffel was flying at 26,000 feet and had prepared to attack a squadron of Spitfires below them. During the attack, P/W thought he was protected from his rear by his Rottenhund but a Spitfire got on his tail and his aircraft was shot through the radiator. He landed in this aircraft which was only slightly damaged. P/W stated this was not his aircraft and apart from the seahorse, which was their Staffel crest, all the decorations on the aircraft were purely personal ones of the its usual pilot, whose name he refused to disclose. On both sides of the nose there was a black double-edged battleaxe on a white field. On the starboard side there was the word Erika near the shield. There was six victory stripes on the tail, two of these with RAF roundels. Between two of the stripes was painted a black top hat inside a red gunsight ring. Pilot has breviously served with the Austrian Air Force until the Anschluss, when he transferred to the GAF. Unwounded, EK II."


HTH

Regards
Dave Wadman