Dora 9 and K-4 photos on Ebay

[WEISNER]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:EF:US:1123
K-4 Below!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Orig-WW-2-Luftwa...QQcmdZViewItem
Thought Members may like to see these and discuss? I have not seen these before?
Kevin

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Hi Weisner,

Cannot opent the links. Any chance to post the pics? Thanks in advance!

Marc

[RolandF]

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[Peter D Evans]

Here you go chaps... albeit the small size of both doesn't help...

Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[bavgan]

Description for Dora: Original WW2 G.I. photo taken at Halle Germany of a G.I. sitting in the cockpit of Fw 190 D-9 “Black 3” W. Nr. 601090 of II./JG 6. Photo measures 4” X 2.5”, excellent condition.




Description for K-4: Original WW 2 G.I. photo taken at Furth Germany of various Bf 109 fuselages including a Bf 109 K-4 in the left foreground. In the background is a G-6 W. Nr. 440753, in the right foreground is a 109 fuselage coded 5F “Yellow 14”. Photo measures 3.75” X 2.75”, excellent condition.


If I am not wrong, the 109 photo was published in one of the late Jagdwaffe books.

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Peter,

Thanks so much for your helping hand!

Bavgan and Weisner,
I'm without my reference library for the Fw 190 D, so, sorry, I can't add anything about the D-9 pic.

As for the K-4 pic, it is already published în Carl Hildebrant's Broken Eagles 3: Bf 109 G/K part II, p. 16, 1988. Thanks to F19Gladiator, you can enjoy a higher resolution scan of this very same photo in the following LEMB thread, post #32:

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/fo...st=20&start=20

Location of Fürth is correct.
Cheers

Marc

[Dave Wadman]

Hi Kevin,

I have copies of both of these photos which I picked up several years ago in an album that I purchased and can confirm from what is written beside the photos that they were taken at Halle and Fürth. The album also includes a second photo of the D-9.

Cheers

Dave

[RolandF]

The photograph appears in p.31, "Augsburg´s Last Eagles" by Brett Green, too. In excellent quality. In JaPo´s "K-4 camouflage and marking" there´s a view from the other direction.

I distrust the caption "Fürth" or "Fuerth" (near Nuremberg) because the style of the buildings does not fit at all.

There´s also a village "Furth (im Wald)" without the -ue- which is in the vicinity of Cham. This puts us not far from the Messerschmitt 109 production site Cham-Micheldorf and in the middle of Messerschmitt´s dispersed secret production net for the 109 in North-Eastern Bavaria. The depicted 109s seem to be prepared for recycling in a "Zerlegebetrieb".
And - the building style would better fit to "Furth im Wald"

Regards

Roland

[DeMePhi]

Photo is published in Crandals book - the Focke Wulf Fw 190 Dora Volume I. IIRC the WNr. was subject of conjecture, but with strong evidence. As I'm at work now, I cannot look in the book to mention the page number.