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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Trying to cast my mind back to when we were writing Air War Italy 1944–45, I think that Staffel colours were reversed in NAGr. 11, the 1. Staffel using black numbers and the 2. using white. This seemed to be a legacy of the units they had been formed out of in Autumn 1943, 4.(H)/12 and 2.(H)/14 respectively. 2./NAGr. 11 had eight Bf 109 G-10/R2 on 22 April 1945.
77022x came up in a thread here in (I think) 2012 and I saved a copy of the image as "Golding photos 002" (see attached).
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Thanks Nick, for recording us this tactical markings oddity.
Cheers
Marc