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Re: Battle of Britain Bf109E found in India a few years ago?
Peter
What I hadn't noticed before was the apparent vertical bar (showing as a white stripe) aft of the fuselage cross. Not much doubt about Roland's view that the grey primer is the evidence of a repositioned cross. When you stand back and look at this, the overwhelming view is that the fuselage numeral was "6". If you look in isolation, and for too long, at the 8, 5 and 6 you end up convincing yourself that the 5 and 8 are also possible contenders for the final fuselage numeral....but it may just be me!
Again - excellent photos! I am seeing things here that I didn't see when I crawled all over it!!!
PS - I must have been writing this as Roland was making his post but we both concur about the the vertical Gruppe bar marking. I also agree with his earlier comments about the helblau RLM 65 and am convinced that the white patches above the wing root on Peter's earlier posts must be helblau. I should imagine that with what we have so far it will be quite easy for someone to soon come up with a profile view of what it must have looked like when it sat down in that Kent field in November 1940.
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