eBay: early 2./JG 3 emblem

[Clint Mitchell]

Indeed Franck but this is significant in that it is actually applied to a 71/02 aircraft when it was believed to have been discontinued with the introduction of the 1940 scheme. It's appearance, location, and size is quite different also to the variation as seen on Bf109e's in September 1939. Sinisa discovered over on LEMB that this same photo appears on page 309 of Eric Mombeek and others, Jagdwaffe, Volume One Section 4, Attack in the West - May 1940. But the image appears to have been censored so as the only part of the emblem which is visible is the Sudeten German party insignia in the middle. So it's not the earliest incarnation of this emblem as the earlier variant was quite different in appearance in my opinion.