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422. This is the original photograph that was posted on eBay by Historical-Media.com a couple of years ago. For those of us who live at 44o N Lat. in Canada, we recognize that the glint of the sun low on the horizon behind the clouds, the denuded deciduous trees and the overnight frozen ground water places the time of day as shortly after sunrise and the time of year as mid winter. For a photographer to be up so early with so many ground crew involved usually indicated this photo was taken prior to an important mission.
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423. After tweaking, a few more features become apparent. Both aircraft are carrying a single SC 250 general purpose blast bomb on the starboard bomb rack. This and the nose and tail markings indicate these are Me 262s of KG 51. Note the camo netting draped across the nose of the aircraft on the left.
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424. This enlarged cropping shows the nose cap and tail tip to be yellow with a narrow white band in front of/above a black demarcation band. The white band signified
I. Gruppe and the yellow signified
3. Staffel. When you add the fact that a yellow "A" can be seen on the nose wheel door, the identity of this Me 262 is "9K+AL". Also noteworthy was
I. Gruppe's custom at this time of to encircle the lower gun port with the
Staffel colour.