Losses in the last days of the Reich

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Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

An interesting start for a not so rare position of tactical markings behind the Balkenkreuz. I have found at least five different photographically documented occurrences, listed below:

The first is Bf 109 G-14 W.Nr. 464 463, of FFS B 1 Kaltenkirchen, February 1945, published in D'Amico and Valentini 1984, p. 102? A close-up can be found in Bergström and Pegg 2005, p. 183.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2809206...57625539886908
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2809206...57625539886908

To be more precise, that "+7" was photographed at Holzkirchen, where the pilots of I° Gr.C. of the ANR were training on the Bf 109 from November 1944 to late January 1945. In the attached photo, it can be clearly seen behind a group pf Italian pilots on the white snowy plain of Holzkirchen airfield.

If it came there from an operational unit I don't know, but it is sure that it was there with training tasks before ending abandoned in a Czeckoslovakian airfield in May 1945...