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Old 6th April 2007, 08:50
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Need Help to ID Luftwaffe Fighter

Hi,

I'm fairly new to all this so after researching books and online sites, I thought I'd see if someone here could help me ID this particular WWII fighter. The picture was taken in June of 1945 at a German Air Base (not sure which one) near Bad Aibling (between Munich and Salzberg).

I've numbered three things that have me questioning things. Number one points to the cowling which appears to be more rounded and separated from the rear part of the fuselage than the ME-109 for instance. It looks more like what you see on the HE-112 (the whole thing looks a lot like one including the air scoop underneath) but from what I understand (which isn't much I admit), only a few were made early on for Spain, Japan and Romania and with the camoflauge and armament, I can't imagine it's one of those). Number 2 points to something I've not seen in any of the pictures I've looked at. There's what appears to be a 20mm or 30mm cannon mounted next (looks like there's 4 cannon total, one on each wing and one on each side of the fuselage and no maching guns)to it but it doesn't appear to be part of the exhaust. With number three I was just curious. Is it a camera mount? Anyway, any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John
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