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Originally Posted by Maximowitz
Thanks to Mike H, here's a profile of Major Puttfarken's ME 410. How accurate a depiction from the point of camouflage would you think it is? I assume Leutnant Wenning's machine would have been similar?
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I wouldn't rely on that profile. I think you will find that in II./KG 51 only the individual aircraft letter was full size. There's a photo of 9K+CP in Classic Colours'
Kampfflieger Vol.4 showing that form of marking (later adopted on KG 51's Me 262s).
National Archives AIR40/207 contains a report on an Me 410 crashed at Manor Farm, Frankton near Rugby after collision with an Airspeed Oxford: 9K+Z? — Z in black with yellow outline. 42 on base of fin in black; below this on fuselage 750 in black on white ground.
Camouflage: blue-grey on upper surfaces and light grey undersides (spray painted). Carried two external 300 litre tanks. Armament: 4 x MG 151 cannon (two of which in the bomb bay); 2 x MG 17; 2 x MG 131.
[This was Wenning and Delp's machine].