Seeking photo of Maj Hans Schalk's Bf110 as Gesch Kde of ZG26 circa last Q of 1940

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Have completed the RK series for Maj Hans Schalk's Bf109D-1 & Bf110C/Ds as Gr Kdr of III./ZG26. Schalk moved up to command ZG26, replacing Huth, around the beginning of Oct., 1940. I'm trying to document the Bf110E-1 that I believe that he would have flown at that time. It should display a white nose prior to the time the unit withdrew from the Channel coast, and would have carried the code 3U+AA with a chevron on the nose followed by a very long horizontal bar, possibly in blue with a thin black outline. A photo exists of possibly this a/c, but it may be an E-2 rather than an E-1, and the E-2 wasn't produced until early 1941. This a/c does not display a white nose.

Does anyone have a photo of Schalk's 3U+AA with a white nose circa that last quarter of 1940?

Who can help?

[obdl3945]

Hi, Larry...

This is the only Bf110 I have with chevron and bar, which I would suggest is white rather than blue. It may be of interest to you. I've catalogued this as a 'C' subtype but not sure that's correct.

Regards,

Paul

Image from expired ebay auction

[Larry Hickey]

Paul,

Thanx for posting this. It is Huth's Bf110 after a gear collapse circa 09.40. He preceeded Schalk as Gesch Kde of ZG26. We have this photo in the EoE DB, and it is the basis for one of our color profiles.

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

It has been suggested that Schalk's Bf110E-1 with Stab./ZG26 which carried (green or blue) Stab markings thinly outlined in black was the a/c he flew in late 1940 and early 1940. It was identical except for color and no white nose to Huth's a/c posted above. There are photos that exist of both the port nose, including with Schalk posing with it, and an almost complete port-side view of this, which was sold a couple of years ago on eBay.

John Vasco won that eBay photo and reports: "It is an 'E'. W. Nr. 4059. Makes it an 'E-1' built between May and August 1941, so outside the scope of the Project."

So Schalk had to have had another aircraft prior to this WNr.4059 covering the period from October, 1940 to late-spring, 1941, when he probably got WNr.4059. So we're still searching for photos of that a/c. And did this a/c have the white Stab symbols like the Huth example, or did Schalk immediately switch to blue or green Stab symbols on his new a/c in late 1940, which was very likely a new Bf110E-1.

Since Schalk had just won the RK with Stab III./ZG26 on 1 October 1940, immediately before he moved to command the Geschwaderstab, there must be photos out there somewhere of this new a/c.

Who can help me find them?

[Evgeny Velichko]

Greetings, gentlemen!

Finally I get enternet here in polar tundra.

Larry, I have only this: