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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
I don't know whether the status of III./EJG 2 had anything to do with where the number was placed, or whether the nose section was simply the largest available space on a new type of aircraft. The practice began with Erprobungskommando 262 and continued after it was renamed III./EJG 2. The same thing was done by 1./NAGr. 1 on its Me 262s and the reconnaissance machines found at Lechfeld (see my article in Axis Wings Vol. 2, October 2024).
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Hi Nick,
Wow! I just got my copy of
Axis Wings, Volume 2. The scholarship of your article "Me 262 Reconnaissance Operations, 1944-45" and the quality of the accompanying photographs are both outstanding. I see what you mean about the placement of the numerals on these aircraft. For what it is worth, the very recent availability in the posting of a good resolution still of "white 3" by Kurmark-Antik, to my eye shows the final three digits to be "523".
Also, if I am reading it correctly, the order for the disbanding of III./EJG 2 can be found in RL 2-III/69 pp. 0179-0180. If so, you were correct and there was no "JG Baer".
Thank you, again.
Jim