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Old 19th December 2013, 22:13
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Re: unknown Staffelabzeichen from Geschwader "Horst Wessel"

David,

As far as I can remember since I don't have the access to my books now, rendition of the 3./ZG26 emblem appeared in his first book on the LW emblems entitled Markings and camouflage systems of Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II from 1961*, and it was without the cross-hair.

In one of his later books on the subject, he published a close up photo of this emblem sported on a Bf110, with the cross-hair.

Probably because of a poor quality of the photo of a Bf109D-1 with this emblem, where he could not see the cross-hair, I believe that he was of the opinion that there were two variants of this emblem - with and without the cross-hair.

Regards,
Sinisa
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