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Re: bf-109E 6°119 from 1.J/88, E-1 or E-3?
Aircraft 6 • 119 of the Legion Condor was a Bf 109E-1. The Werknummer is, sadly, not known to me. It was the airplane of Hptm. u. Stkp. Siebelt Reentz, who commanded 1. J/88 between 02.09.38 and war’s end. Reentz is identified as the pilot of 6 • 119 in the photo caption in Ries/Ring, Legion Condor, p. 218. This aircraft survived German service, served with Ejercito del Aire, and at the beginning of 1946 was converted to take a Hispano-Suiza HS-12Z-89 engine.
References for the above are:
Ries/Ring, Legion Condor, pp. 218, 226, photos, and p. 251; Cerdá, Les Mess. espagnols, pp. 27, 44, photos; Cerdá, Les Chasseurs de la Lég. Con., pp. 19, 21, photos; Cerdá, Los Cazadores de la Leg. Con., pp. 71, 76, 109, photos.
Aircraft artwork, even the most skilled and respectable, should never ever be considered as a reliable source for serious historical research. What you have experienced is a living example of this maxim.
RA
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