Fw 190 D 9

[Peglar]

Hello, seeking a Fw 190 D 9 Foto (in Flight) for an former JG 2 Pilot - he flies the Yellow 7 in 1945.


Greetings peglar

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Wow Peglar,

You're asking for something I never had the chance to see: a Fw 190 D-9 in flight...
Even after four books summing 1500 pages on the subject, none has surfaced so far...

Wish us good luck
Marc

[Harold Lake]

I can only recall two photos where a Dora is actually flying, and both appear in the old 1973/1975 "Six Months to Oblivion" by Werner Gerbig as well as several other books. One image, taken by an American cameraman, shows a Dora flying awfully close to a cluster of free falling US bombs and the other photo looks like a still from a home movie showing a Dora just rotating on take-off with bomb mounted beneath its fuselage (yellow 2 with the 2nd gruppe). Okay, not really what is requested, but I list these just to show the dire paucity of such material.

Hal

[Peter Kassak]

Those two photos mentioned are also in Lorants Le Focke Wulf book...

[Leo Etgen]

Hi guys

In addition to the photograph of the Fw 190 D-9 flying near the falling bombs mentioned above I also remember the three gun camera stills sourced from www.thomasgenth.de/html/iii_jg_26.html which show the Fw 190 D-9 "Yellow 15" (W.Nr. 500 118) flown by Unteroffizier Karl-Georg Genth (2 victories) of 11./JG 26 being shot down near Enschede by F/O Vassilios Vassiliades (10 victories, killed in action 25 March 1945) of 3 Sqn, RAF on 7 March 1945 as his last victory.







I realize that this is not what Peglar is asking for but this does demonstrate that there are a few photographs of a Dora-9 in flight.

Horrido!

Leo

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Harold Lake

… the other photo looks like a still from a home movie showing a Dora just rotating on take-off with bomb mounted beneath its fuselage (yellow 2 with the 2nd Gruppe).

Hal

It's a Wochenschau newsreel and II./JG 6 IIRC. I've seen the sequence of the take-off somewhere. It may be available on the net if you search.

[Peglar]

This is the one i have.

Greetings Peglar

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Wochenschau excerpt with hair raising take-offs of Bf 109 G's and Fw 190 D-9's found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0p8u...e=more_related

Cheers
Marc

[ouidjat]

Thanks for the link Marc,

Not that easy to take off with those machines: It's not low level, but mow level! ?? Ups, what did I say?

Regards, Franck.

[jim norton]

hi,

there is also one (or two) in-flight-photos in axel urbanke´s dora 9-book.

all the best
jim