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Old 2nd May 2014, 22:03
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Re: eBay: a Stab JG27 Bf109.. with Stab emblem??

Franck, this... find of yours in my opinion is nothing short of spectacular. It shows the belly-landed Bf109F-2* of Stab/JG27 coded "Double Chevron and bars" sporting the elusive Stab/JG27 or inded JG27 emblem. As far as I can tell, this is the first such photo. Never seen before!

I will try to decipher the scene. The first photo (given in your post No.2) shows the apparently recently belly-landed aircraft camouflaged by wooden planks so it cannot be seen from the air. The soldier standing next to it appears to be Russian. If so, the scene might have been captured on the first day of Operation Barbarossa (i.e., 22 June 1941), and the Stab/JG27 aircraft belonged to the then Kommodore, Major Wolfgang Schellmann, who was captured, interrogated and later executed by the NKVD.

The second photo (post No.1) shows the scene when the fast advancing German Army had already reached the aircraft and secured the scene by posting a guard. The photo appears slightly overexposed so what appears to be snow is really something else.

Any corrections or contributions to the above is welcome.

Regards,
Sinisa
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