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Old 2nd October 2013, 20:45
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9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Is anyone able to identify this 9./JG26 pilot? Photo taken on Channel Coast, 1940.
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Old 3rd October 2013, 18:53
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Hi Andy,

I know this photo from the Steve Hall collection, I believe it came with the Fronhöfer collection. Could he be Fronhöfer's wing man. I am also interested in the identity of this pilot.

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Old 3rd October 2013, 19:21
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
He looks a little like 9./JG26 Staka Gerhard Schopfel, the nose and hair at least.
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Old 3rd October 2013, 20:38
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Hello friends,

i dont think it is Schöpfel, because we are looking at an Unteroffizier.
Sorry, but can not help further.

Norbert
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Old 4th October 2013, 13:52
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Well, it was worth a try!


Yes; from Fronhöfer
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Old 4th October 2013, 14:10
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Here's a pic of Fronhofer taken on what appears to be the same aircraft compared with the OP's photo. Notice the smudge on the lower cowling under his elbow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2imag...n/photostream/
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Old 4th October 2013, 14:36
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Perhaps you could be correct!

Certainly seems to be a photograph taken at the same time, and of the same aircraft.
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
I cannot see anyone personnel in John Vasco's 9./JG26 book who looks like him either...
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Old 5th October 2013, 01:11
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Unteroffizier, yes, the tabs were the clue... must go to Specsavers....
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Re: 9./JG26 Pilot - 1940
Definitely not Schöpfel.
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