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Re: Hans Philipp Bf109E-3 on eBay
Franck,
Philipp did not score any victories between his 8th on 7.6.40, during the WC, and his 9th on 30.8.40, well into the BoB. Since II./JG54 apparently entered the BoB carrying the mottled camouflage on their 109s, these photos could only have been taken in either Holland or France after the unit returned to the coast in miid-July, 1940. The absence of yellow tail markings means that this photo were taken from then until the first week to ten days of August, By August 13th, almost all Luftwaffe fighter units carried yellow tail markings, some even earlier than that date. If this were the aircraft of Philipp, or anyone else, this gives a limited time window for these photos, and there were only two 4 Staffel pilots with the right victory totals during that period, although the plane probably wasn't "White 1." I think it likely to have been Philipp's aircraft, but we don't yet know the correct plane number. If anyone has further evidence of this, I'd certainly like to hear from them.
Regards,
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