[Merlin]

This is the Bf 109F-4 WNr. 8419 from Stab/JG 52. The plane was crash landed by Ofw. Karl Munz from Stab I./JG 52 near Grodino on 8.Jan.42 - a similar photo with the same buildings in the background was published in Luftwaffe im Focus some time ago.

The emblem below the cabin is similar to that of III./JG 27, it’s not the Geschwader emblem of JG 27. This seems to be a personal add by Maj. Wilhelm Lessmann, who led JG 52 from 10.41 to 06.42. The emblem should remind him of his first command as Staffelkapitän of 1./JG 131 during 1937/38. This unit became later I./JG 130, I./JG 1 and finally III./JG 27.