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Not sure how to apply a photo to this place, but there is one photo in this little book, I think of Trautloft's diary-which unfortunately I can't find right now - that has some very interesting photos. Along with 1 or 2 photos of 'unknown' machines of Trautloft, is a version, or one of a series of, Phillip's more well-known Es. This is the one of him and a couple of other guys standing about the tail of his machine which displays 18 claims. This has been published as a color photo in some sources. This 'wider' cropped version shows the right edge of what can only be a 'white 9' and does not match the e-bay photo. This would be consistent with his later more well-known Bf 109F-2.

There is also a series of photos of a Bf 109E from 4./JG 54 'white 1' in of all places, an Italian book about Italian ace Furio Niclot Doglio. In this case the Italians were using at least one ex-4./JG 54 Bf 109E for training on the 109. The one photo from the port side does not match the e-bay photo, but it does point out one possible issue. The prop spinner has a white band at its front end. Given this, we may be looking at a 5./JG 54 machine. Could this be 5. Stkp. Roloff von Aspern? He claimed like 18 vics before buying it in Nov. 1940.