[maccullagh]

By all of what I have seen JG 27 would have been the most likely unit in that area at the time that the photo was taken.

In the minds of a lot of people the location of the theatre band is the problem, which I understand did not go to adjacent to the + until later in 1942.

You are the first to provide some information that the band might have been adjacent to the + before that time, which is interesting as it will tie the plane to JG 27. I consider this to be the most logical unit.

I have comfirmed the time my father was there from his service record from the Australian Archives. I did not find the photo until after he had passed away. Also most of his unit members that I knew had passed away before him.

If he was in North Africa in mid 1942 the plane would have almost certainly been Erich Kranske whom was shot down and captured May 1942.

It would be interesting to have the history of all number 9's of JG 27 during the period July 1941 to April 1942.