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Old 18th September 2006, 14:36
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Re: Did the HS 129 B-2 operate in Tunisia 1942/43?

My notes above seem to be the only specific reference to an aircraft.

Pegg notes that with respect to Tunisa, in December 1942 5./SchG.1 was redesignated 8(Pz)/Sch.G.2. By January 1943, he notes that most Hs 129 attacks were carried out by aircraft fitted with 30 mm cannon and bomb rack under each wing [note: he does not indicate if boimbs were carried, just that racks were fitted]. He then goes on to note that some Hs 129 were maintained as pure bomb carries with four SD 50s on the center line rack and AB 23 containers on each of the wing racks.

There are, however, no definitive pictures of Hs 129s with the 30 mm cannon installed. There is one small picture, head on, of an Hs 129 under reapir at El Aouina. One can make out a cannon instillation under the fuselage that has been unhinged from.
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