[Marc-André Haldimann]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your comment; any chance to see this picture in colour? I understand your impression to have an all black Me 109G-6/AS, like the colour photograph of Green 5 of 2./EJG 2 photographed on 14 april 1945 in Gardelegen, from the Jeff Ethell collection, recently published in the Luftwaffe in Focus Special 2, p. 26 - 27.
Actually, like you, Kuba pointed on a two tone 81/82 or 83 camouflage extended on most of the fuselage. A good example of his type of camo can be seen with Yellow 11 from JG 52 (?), found at the end of the war in Deutsch Brod (Jada and Poruba 2004, 46 - 49). Is your shot better concerning the possibility of reading the W. Nr.?

Thanks for the input

Marc

Sources:
- Axel Urbanke 2006, Almost a miracle: "Green 5" of 2./EJG 2 in colour, Luftwaffe im Focus, spezial 2, p. 26-27.

- Ales Janda and Thomas Poruba 2004, Messerschmitt Bf 109s of JG 52, in Deutsch Brod, JaPo, p. 46 - 49.