Dear all,
Just found an unknown and very interesting pic of a crash landed Me 109 K-4 photographed in Spring 1945 by members of the 644th Tank destroyer Battalion.
http://www.644td.com/eto3.htm
Though the picture is of really low resolution, my first assessment would point to "White or Yellow 9", a machine of 13 or 15. Staffel, IV/ JG 53 (note the apparently black RV Band, though a green one from JG 27 can currently be not totally excluded).
There is a way to solve this riddle: by magnifiying the picture, one can distinctly see on the cowling a unit emblem which has a shield form. It is certainly not the Pik-As emblem of JG 53, but could it be a Staffel emblem of this unit? Or do we have to take JG 27 in consideration?
I just asked to the webmaster of the site for a higher resolution file of this picture. In the mean time, anybody could shed some more light?
Cheers
Marc