[maccullagh]

Thanks F19gladiator,

I have a photo of my father standing beside a 109 identified as an F series at El Adem airfield, North Africa that is dated Christmas 1941. This plane had been shot down sometime before that.

My father was back in Australia by April 1942 and was dressed for cold weather which would comfirm the timing.

A number of members of this forum have commented that these particular markings would not have been in this location until say mid 1942 and onwards which is the mystery.

Although my father is standing in front of the markings on the starboard side I am confident that they are the same markings as in the above photo except it is Yellow 9.

As the unit you mention above was in the same geograhic part of the world, could this plane have come from the same unit.

If a Yellow 9 existed in the unit you mention does anyone have some information regarding it.

Thanks

Rick