John, sorry if I have overstepped the mark in anyway.
Franck: At no point did anyone say that it was strong enough evidence to finalise this identification.
This topic developed loosely as follows:
Question: What colour is the marking?
Answer: Red for 2nd Staffel
Question: What emblem does the shape on the cowling look like?
Answer: It looks like the I./JG77 'Tattered Boot'.
Question: There's a WNr. on the tail, does anyone know what it looks like?
Answer: WNr.3378
Additional evidence found: Funnily enough of all the possible units that this aircraft could have been a photo of it turns out that there actually was a Bf109E that had the WNr.3378, that served with 2./JG77 at some point in it's service lifetime.
Now if I'm not mistaken given the evidence that we have got to work with here, I think it pretty reasonable to suggest that it's a "rather convincing hit" without fear of my comments being called "mere ridiculous speculation".
Franck, the situation is this. Quite rightly you don't have to take anyone's suggestion as fact, that is what open public debate is all about and no one has suggested that you do so. So quite why you got your knickers in a twist because I said it was "a convincing hit" I don't know. Perhaps If I had said "Yes, that's it, a 100% confirmed ID" I could understand but I didn't and it would be wrong to do so given the evidence.
Believe it or not it is possible for enthusiasts to agree to disagree without resorting to low grade snipes and to conduct themselves in a respectful manner towards each other.
