BF 109G-10 77022. New gen

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by veltro

Definitely. Especially when comparing the rear-view photo with the frontal one, where the same area has been completely removed (looted would be the right word?) being clearly the subject of some "souvenir hunter" or of some civilian living in the area, as scrap metal was very valuable at the time and I have more than one reports of entire aicraft being completely dismantled by civilians whose later sold the metal or used it to make pots, pans as well as roofs for henhouses or the like ...

On this point I don't agree. If I need to use a lever to unhinge the door (even if I think it was easily removable with a simple screwdriver) I would have inserted it in one of the many other smaller holes as this would allow me to apply more power.
I think, instead, that those three mechanics had been sent just to remove from the wreckage those parts still usable or of special interest and to do this they could have removed the panel.