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[Parabellum]

Hi Maccullagh,

I'm not sure it's a JG 53 Me 109F...
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=250097415397
...why not a Me 109 F from 6 staffel JG 77?
The JG 53 ace of spade was black and, on the pic, the hue of the insignia looks more as a red ace of heart than as a black ace of spade.
Even the shape of the ace seems to point at JG 77, to my advice.
Any other opinion?
Cheers,

[maccullagh]

Hi,

I was not able to locate the photo I had posted some time ago but have attached it to this post.

Regards

Rick

[F19Gladiator]

Originally Posted by maccullagh

Hi,

I was not able to locate the photo I had posted some time ago but have attached it to this post.

Regards

Rick

Thank you Rick. Kind of you to post the photo. Being a bit busy now , but taken from the top of my head I would say that this is more likely a "Yellow 9" of 6./JG 27, Bf 109 F-2/Trop, given the place and time of the photo you refer to.
Camouflage is different from the F-4 on eBay as your photo rather show a desert camouflage of RLM 79 Sandgelb upper and 78 Hellblau (Himmelblau) lower fuselage. Probably whith the typical white spinner also visible. Difficult to tell from the photo but it should then very likely also have a white nose band just aft of the spinner.

[maccullagh]

F19gladiator,

Thank you for that information. Others in the past have had problems with the location of the white theatre band.

I think that it is adjacent to the + whereas most JG 27 had the band further back from the + which puts it into different time line from when my father was in North Africa.

AS I do not have access to much in the way of the history of the unit available to me here I will have to rely on yourself and others to provide information on the history of the plane pilot etc.

Regards

Rick Maccullagh

[F19Gladiator]

Can be that it is an F-4/Trop as II/JG 27 was equipped with these in Germany before transferring to Africa, the aircraft receiving it's paintwork while in Germany.