Belly landed Bf109 Red 3 at Epinoy (?) 1940

[Jim P.]

Franck, note that I had a question mark at the end of my two sentences prior to posting the data from my database based on Rudi's interpretation of the WNr. This as good a reading of the WNr. as anyone else has proposed. My post was not supposed to be seen as an absolute, but as a beginning to figuring out the identity of the machine. Besides we don't know for sure 'when' this incident occurred. That Priebe was flying it at the beginning of the war does not make the photo as being from that time, merely that the machine was identified as having been with the 2./JG 77 at the beginning of the war. The photo could be from anytime, excluding winter 39/40, through until mid-summer of 1940. It was not uncommon for machines to have relatively long careers with their assigned units during the first year or more of the war. Note that the machine in the background doesn't have a 'dot' either. If you have a better proposal to make, please do so.