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Re: Me109D's converted to E's?
I think that there was not any need to convert Jumo-engined models into E once the production of E-model had started to roll. By the spring of 1940 there was well enough E-aircraft available for all single-engined dayfighter units at the frontline.
The B/C/D -model Bf 109 aircraft found good use as advanced trainer fighters and were used in that purpose up to 1943 (at least).
Some Bf 109 C/D could also be still used in combat units during the early WWII (up to spring/summer 1940). Although Bf 109 C/D might have appeared obsolete fighter model by late 1939, it was clearly superior compared to Polish PZL fighters and could take on Morane 406/Curtiss Hawk 75. (The famous air combat of 6.11.1939 when Bf 109 D -equipped unit was defeated effectively by French Curtiss fighters had more to do with faulty tactics and lack of coordination between German pilots than with the supposed inferiority of Bf 109 D vs. Hawk 75). The Bf 109 C/D was also the first German nightfighter to achieve some air victories during WW2.
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