Photos 11-11

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Dear Ed,

Thanks again for your excellent picture selection.

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This one caught specially my attention. The US personnel sitting in the cockpit of the Bf 109 G-10 (note the "D" painted atop the DB 605D engine) is set against a pile of Bf 109 unfinished fuselages which strongly reminds me of this picture, posed by WW2vet on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4036184...38498/sizes/o/

This second pic was discussed in this thread:

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=17708

According also to other pics published by Hideki Nori in his excellent book "LO+ST", the location could be Wertheim. The time frame for those two pics can be quite precisely put in autumn 45 or winter 45 - 46, judging by the leafless trees. Maybe thus another piece of information to add regarding this still to be identified assembly line which was run in a tunnel, apparently quite close to Wertheim... For an alternate location close to the Bodenwöhr forest assembly line (Waldwek), see also the new tread over at LEMB:

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/fo...howtopic=9330&

Cheers
Marc