Rudo Božík - slovak fighter ace in WWII and his Bf 109 G's

[ianatheling]

An excellent set of photos. Some of these are published elsewhere. I have a few comments;

#1 to 4 The Emils were a mixture of E-2, E-4 and E-7 types. These were purchased by the Slovaks to join the First formation of the Slovak 13 Letka. White 2 is WNr. 2945 Bf 109E-4. These entered combat in autumn 1942. White 2 crashed in May 1943.


#5 The Fw189A-2 between two emils is at Piešťany in autumn 1943.

The early Gustavs are G-4 types. The colour of the numerical codes is yellow, not white and belong (mainly) to the second formation of the 13 Letka (13.(slow).JG 52)


#6 and 15 is at Anapa summer 1943
#7 and 26, 1+- had ‘Marta’ painted below the cockpit.
#8 npor Ján Gerthofer 24 victories, standing next to 2+.
#9 rtk Ján Režňák (32 victories) and Izidor Kovárik (28 victories) with 10+- G-4/Trop.
#14 G-4 6+- WNr. 199330
#16 BH+XL either WNr 19308 or 19368 ? of 4./JG 54.
#19 Probably yellow 10+- WNr. 15195.
#21 Ladislav Dubay with 8+- in background Anapa 06-1943.
#22 11+- Anapa 03-1943.
#24 and 39, 40 Izidor Kovárik (28 victories
#29, 31 32 33 34, 35, 36, 37 Bf 109G-4/R6 CU+PQ Anapa 04-1943.
#41 Ján Režňák, Ján Gerthofer and Izidor Kovárik with 10+- G-4/Trop.
#43 Ján Páleníček
#45 Ján Páleníček and Vladimir Kriško with 10+- G-4/Trop
#47 celebration for František Hanovec after his first victory over a Airacobra 22-07-1943


#52 Avia B-534.IV probably dating from late autumn 1941. To the rear is a Avia MB.200 still with 1939-40 markings.
#54 Avia Ba-122, serial no. 122.7, code S1 of Slovak acrobatic school.
#37? A scrapeyard with Slovak Letov S.328 to the rear.

(sorry if there is some repetition to points made by others, but this took some time to complete)


Ian