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Old 8th March 2019, 18:12
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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

A couple of thoughts about the belly-landed Ju 87 D-5:
  • The Alpine location is consistent with the last days of NSG 9, when some of its aircraft did not complete their withdrawal from Thiene to Innsbruck.
  • The camouflage looks like NSG 9's characteristic scheme.
  • The white spinner with narrow spiral doesn't.
  • There is a yellow individual letter on the starboard side which at first I took for a C or G (but E8+GL is already accounted for, backed into the barn at Innsbruck).
  • The 17 on the tail would be consistent with 3./NSG 9's earlier incarnation as 2./NSG 2, in which case 17 = Q. So maybe E8+QL. However, I'm not sure these numbers survived the application of NSG 9 camouflage once the unit arrived in Italy and was renamed.
  • MG 151/20 barrel on the port wing but apparently missing from the starboard.
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