[Clint Mitchell]

Have you seen it applied to any other 71/02 camouflaged Bf109 then? If you check the relevant page on the Jagdwaffe title mentioned it's seems that the photo fooled everyone because they even have an artists rendition of the emblem which shows only the Sudeten German party insignia as being the emblem of 2./JG3. The original photo supplied to the Jagdwaffe team must have been as it appears in the Jagdwaffe book without any evidence of the bell part of the insignia being visible. So clearly some kind of early photo manipulation/censoring has occurred to obliterate the bell element of the insignia for some reason or another.