Hungarian Me 109G-14 engine serial

[HGabor]

Hi Folks, interesting additional details found in Soviet trophy-report on a downed Hungarian Me 109G-14 fighter. Plane was downed by flak on February 12, 1945 at 16:10, local, at Budapest-S, -SW. Altitude was 300 m, distance 800 m. Confirmed by 715 ShAP HQ. Single recce flight. Report says marking was 'B-161', о707595, pilot captured, - survived the war. From Hungarian records we knew, that this Hungarian pilot was Tábori Sándor tiz., the only possible Hungarian Me 109 with similar markings was W-1+61, Me 109G-14, WNr.: 511 247. So DB 605 engine no. of 511 247 was: 00707595.

W.Nr.:................511 247
DB 605 Serial:.....00707595
Marking:.............W-1+61
Pilot:..................Tábori Sándor tiz. (20 yrs old)
Location:.............Tököl-NW, 4 km at the Danube

Downed by 1614 zenap (Soviet 'flak' unit: 1614 ап ПВО). Report says that the 4 soviet guns fired 65 37mm shells and 12 12.7mm DSK rounds to bring down the plane.

ЦАМО, фонд 17 ВА, опись 6568, дело 57, л. 46
Gabor

[Rasmussen]

This wasn't an B in the report --- the B was Kyrillic and is the Latin W.

[HGabor]

Correct. (B = Russian 'V')
Gabor

[AndyMa]

How many Bf109G-14 did Hungary operate?

[HGabor]

Just a rough estimate: in Hungary 35, in Austria another 23 Hungarian Me 109G-14s were lost. (They had much more Me 109G-10s, and of course 109G-6s, 109Ga-6s, 109G-2s, 109Fs, etc. in service.) Have to check exact numbers and of course the Hungarian production figures.

Gabor

[AndyMa]

Thanks, I didn't realise they had so many.