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I hate to say it, but no one in this thread seems sure which sub type is represented by the Gustav in the photograph that started this discussion. At first glance most seem to think it's a G-10, but one or two have said, with equal clarity, that it's a G-14...maybe not an "AS" model but some other. Come now, it can't be all that hard to document based on solid detective work, or can it?
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Well, yes, Harold, identifying these late-war 109s can sometimes be a real bugger. The G14/ASs can easily be mistaken for 109 G10s. So, then to the unit identification markings. And, as you can tell from the above discussions, even that is not always easy because at this time a lot of bad things were happening in Germany, and so documentation is not always available or definitive. Welcome to the Puzzle Palace.
For what it's worth, all the W.Nrs. mentioned above are G-10s assembled at Erla. This according to Prien/Rodeike's "Bf 109 F, G, & K."