24th August 2008, 17:43
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Québec, Canada
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Re: Battle of Britain Bf109E found in India a few years ago?
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Originally Posted by Larry Hickey
The "odd" inscription on this aircraft was one put on some aircraft back in 1939, before the war, giving a location and telephone number of the home base in case the aircraft was forced down somewhere.
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Compared to the latest picture , the inscription certainly appeared readable in earlier photograph available here.
This site goes on saying "...it was determined that I./JG77 under Hptm. Johannes Janke was based at Breslau-Schöngarten between 1 May and 28 August 1939, which coincides with the service entry of the E-1. In addition, the data block was only present on prewar aircraft, for obvious reasons."
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