Hello,
First, thank you Ed for the great effort and wonderful photos.
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The photo showing the tail of Bf 109E-7 WNr.4217 is marked below as "Major Handrick". Could this be his plane with 25 victory bars?
Under the assumption that all the three photos in this lot were taken at the same day, we could assume that they were taken on/after the 10. July 1941 - on this date Hptm. Ihlefeld achieved his 46th victory. At that time Maj. Gotthard Handrick already transfered from Gruppenkomandeur of the III./JG52, to Geschwaderkommodore of the JG77. Around the 10. July 1941, both units ,I.(J)/LG2 and Stab/JG77 were stationed on Jassy airfield.
WNr.4217 was later on damaged in a crashlandung at Eupatoria with the 15.(kroat)/JG52.
best regards,
Tomislav