Picture of LW plane with SD-2

[Jens]

Dear Friends,

i need a picture of a LW plane with "Rosten" and "SD-2" in 1941. Does anybody has such a photo or know somebody, who has such a picture? I would pay for this, even if i would get "only" the copyright.

[JohnnyB]

Hi Jens,

look at this :

http://www.me109.info/display.php?a=e&fid=3317

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Johny,

This is really an amazing picture...thanks for sharing the link with us!
Adriano

[Harold Lake]

Yes, a very interesting photo. But the caption is wrong. According to a Messerschmitt document in my file, the ONLY Bf 109 Emils eligible to carry the SD 2 were the Bf 109 E-7/U1, U2 and U3. No other Emil subtypes were authorized. In fact, the Bf 109 E-1/B, E-3/B and E-4/B were built to carry only 50, 250 and 500 kg bomb(s) in various combinations. The E-7 and E-8 also carried these bombs but without any notation change to their series designations.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Harold Lake

Yes, a very interesting photo. But the caption is wrong. According to a Messerschmitt document in my file, the ONLY Bf 109 Emils eligible to carry the SD 2 were the Bf 109 E-7/U1, U2 and U3. No other Emil subtypes were authorized. In fact, the Bf 109 E-1/B, E-3/B and E-4/B were built to carry only 50, 250 and 500 kg bomb(s) in various combinations. The E-7 and E-8 also carried these bombs but without any notation change to their series designations.

Hi Harold,

not only BF109 E was able to carry this SD-2, G- version too. Look at the link below to find "Rüstsatz IV" for BF109 G

http://www.adlertag.de/ruest.htm

[Harold Lake]

Johnny B,

Sorry, but I doubt this site. There is just no official record of the SD 2 system being used beyond ANY Bf 109 after the Emil series. And the site is suspect partly because it does not list the Gustav subtype which is an important omission. Then too, you might expect the Bf 109 F to also employ the system, but yet here again there is no official record of it progressing beyond the Emil E-7/U1, U2 and U3.

[Jens]

Thanks! Looks indeed very interesting. Does anybody know, how to get a copyright permission? I need it for a quite commercial use.

[John Vasco]

Bf 110s of SKG 210 also used SD2s on the Russian Front in 1941.

[Evgeny Velichko]

First use of SD-2 was on 29 october 1940, during "Opernhalle" operation - massive JaBo raid on RAF airfields. Almost all JaBo staffeln, together with 3./Erpr.Gr.210 and II.(Schl)/LG2 flew on that raids. Many of them used SD-2 on their Bf109E-4/B's and E-7/B's.

Photo above shows Bf109E-3/B with emblem of II.(Sch)/LG2, summer 1941, Belarus region.

SD-2 were, as John stated, very widely used by SKG210 (and after 4.1.42 - ZG1) during its first tour on Eastern Front, 22.6.41 - march 1942.

[BC]

Originally Posted by Evgeny Velichko

First use of SD-2 was on 29 october 1940

Close, but there are accurate records of SD-2s dropped in the Ipswich area of East Suffolk on the afternoon of 27 October 1940, possibly during the Jabo attack on RAF Martlesham Heath. The first warnings regarding unexploded examples were issued by the BBC the following day.

BC