Late war Bf 109 pictures source

[ouidjat]

Hello Marc and Ferdinando,

Won't back on "White 7" thread ... But
I just got that Jagdwaffe Vol 5 Sec. 2, "War in the east 1944-1945" by Bergström and Pegg where we can find both "Weisse 7" and "Weisse 24" both linked with ROA ...
Comments about these captions? (Ferdinando, I'm sure your caption is well documented, don't take it bad)

... And, of course, what about that Yellow "+ - 2 -"; still in ROA perspective ?..
(Here on work site they call me "Pitbull" I don't lose my bone!)

Regards, Franck.

[veltro]

Originally Posted by ouidjat

I just got that Jagdwaffe Vol 5 Sec. 2, "War in the east 1944-1945" by Bergström and Pegg where we can find both "Weisse 7" and "Weisse 24" both linked with ROA ...
Comments about these captions? (Ferdinando, I'm sure your caption is well documented, don't take it bad)

Why should I?

Educated guesswork can do a lot of good and a lot of bad, depending on how solid is the evidence, and the phrase in the caption of the "white 7" photo "...W.Nr.464463 is unusual in having a tactical number behind the fuselage Nalkenkreuz. It may therefore have been assigned to ROA..." is an exemplification of that.

The underlined word is the key.

Had the authors already seen the photograph of the same plane (and there are no doubts that it is the same, as no two Luftwaffe Bf 109s have the same camouflage spots, combined to the unusually placed aircraft number and its unusual shape...) in Holzkirchen, would they have drawn up the same conclusion?

I seriously doubt so.

So we have educated guesswork lacking all the info or - at least - one part of the info and making an hypothetical deduction which was based on one single photo.

We, instead have two images of W.Nr. 464463 (you can check them side by side, if you want). Would you drew up the same conclusion...?

[ouidjat]

Originally Posted by veltro

Why should I?
combined to the unusually placed aircraft number and its unusual shape...) in Holzkirchen, would they have drawn up the same conclusion?

I seriously doubt so.

So we have educated guesswork lacking all the info or - at least - one part of the info and making an hypothetical deduction which was based on one single photo.

We, instead have two images of W.Nr. 464463 (you can check them side by side, if you want). Would you drew up the same conclusion...?

Thanks Ferdinando.