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Stig: Prien makes no committment and just says production was B and mentions no B-1 or B-2.
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He is simply following Messerschmitt's own nomenclature for the Bf 109B. It did not differentiate between the two types of the a/c. The tags -- B-1 and B-2 -- have only come into use post-war to differentiate between the early a/c with the Schwarz propeller, and the later a/c with the VDM propeller. I am not certain, but I think that when the a/c was upgraded to the VDM propeller, it also got the later, more vertical, windshield.