Need help with eagle/hawk insignia of fuselage of Bf109Es for Jochen Prien book insignia artwork

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Jochen Prien has sent an urgent request for help with the artwork for an eagle/hawk insignia that he wants to illustrate in his latest JFV (Purple) book 12/II, which is ready to go except for this.

Excerpts from his email to me:

"Attached you will find two photos of Bf 109 Fs of I./JG 52 with an enigmatic emblem, quite similar to a number of other emblems to be seen on the a/c of various Gruppen between 1940 and 1943....I need (this) for the addendum which will feature an extensive coverage of the emblems of I./JG 52 in the 1941/42 period. Attached too is a scan of an old print showing the emblem of 12./JG 2 in 1943, which to me seems to be very similar if not identical, albeit mirrored..."

In addition to these is an emblem noted by Robert Szoltyk, which Jochen has also supplied for attachment: Robert says: "I think that another of such "eagle" emblem was on (the a/c) of Lt. Hans Fuss (6./JG3): see pictures nos.082, 083 in JFV 9/II."

I've have made enlargements of these and cropped them for attachment to this email. The problem is that these images are too indistinct or incomplete to get good fix on the details, which look like an eagle, hawk or some other bird of prey, snatching something in its talons, One "something" looks like a cluster of white balls. This may or may not be related to the 12./JG2 emblem from 1943.

So can anyone help by supplying a much sharper image of the emblem that appeared on the I./JG52 a/c or the 6./JG3 a/c? If we can find suitable images from which to work, we have an artist standing by to complete the artwork necessary so that Jochen can quickly put JFV 12/II to bed.

http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-2hz...-2hzKfT9-S.jpg
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-n4h...-n4hkwp4-S.jpg
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-Hn3...-Hn3kJZc-S.jpg
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-GN9...-GN9ms3h-S.jpg

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator