Fw190, WNr.670926, Black 6+~, which unit?

[piero]

Hallo,
I have problems in attributing the unit to which this aircraft (WNr. 670926) belongs; can someone help me, please?
many thanks
Giampiero Piva

http://ultraimg.com/images/2017/07/17/Gt2J.md.jpg

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Yours is a rare bird, Piero:

it is a Fw 190 F-3, so belonging to a IV./SG as the wavy horizontal Gruppe bar indicates. The other pics uploaded on model forum.cz do show some of the Fw 190's found at Berlin Tempelhof at war's end: http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f...1020&start=540

Your plane might have thus been found there. As for the unit, one of the Eastern Front SG's; it does not sport though the Luftflotte 4 yellow engine cowling band.

Cheers
Marc

[cproyston]

Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

As for the unit, one of the Eastern Front SG's; it does not sport though the Luftflotte 4 yellow engine cowling band.

Unfortunately the bit of the cowling that would definitively confirm this is missing ...

[Richard Aigner]

Isn't this an (FW190) upper engine cowl panel at the feet of the soldier leaning against the rear fuselage? The front part is very light in color, the color separation line is straight and at a 90 degree angle to the line of flight: are we seeing part of a yellow ID marking? Of course there is no way to be certain it is from the plane in the photo.
And what about the MG troughs? Have they been covered in sheet metal/filled in?
Regards, Richard
P.S.: how much force does it take to bend the barrels of an MG131?

[Stephen M. Fochuk]

Enough force from a charge, and that's what looked like happened here, on the port side of the engine. And I would agree with your take on the forward portion of the cowling on the ground, having a yellow stripe.

Stephen

[O.Menu]

It was pictured at Linz-Hörsching or simply Hörsching as you prefer

I m not able to completely rule-out IV./SG151 but my bet would be II./EKG(J)

[piero]

Marc, Olivier,
many thanks !
Giampiero Piva

[Seaplanes]

FW 190F-3 W.Nr. 670926 was reported with a 40% damage while in service with I./S.G.102 on 27. May 1944. Unfortunately I do not have any further details.

[Stephen M. Fochuk]

Makes me wonder if we do not have a JG031 D-9 here.

[Roger Gaemperle]

I can confirm Linz Hörsching (many of the German planes found were marked with a red cross on the rudder (see e.g. a color photo of the tail of a Bf 109 found at Linz Hörsching in my book 'Captured Eagles'). I assume the captors marked those that could be scrapped.

Below is a better scan of that photo. Does anybody have an idea what the color of the rudder was? It was not white. Possibly RLM 76 or a light grey? I don't think it was yellow.