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Re: Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West (Combat Aircraft, 149)
To clarify/add to my earlier post on page 1.
3. Staffel of Erprobungsgruppe 210 received factory-fresh Bf 109 E fighter-bombers with a single bomb rack under the fuselage. Nothing was done 'in the field'.
3. Staffel's first fighter-bomber mission was on 13th July 1940. They were the first Bf 109 fighter-bomber Staffel in the BoB.
(Sources: interviews with (Oberleutnant) Otto Hintze, Staffelkapitän of 3. Staffel; Otto Hintz Flugbuch; letter from Peter Emmerich, pilot of 3. Staffel.
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