Lt. Herbert Abendroth, 9./JG 77

[Jochen Prien]

Gentlemen,

John Manrho is absolutely right with his comments on Lt. Abendroth's a/c being Bf 109 K-4, WerkNr. 330 204 and marking " white 13 " instead of " white 1 " as I have stated in the past. The loss report stored at the WASt. in Berlin gives the marking of the a/c as "white 13", the "3" being covered by a stamp mark that leaves only minimal traces of the "3" visible. Werner Girbig, who first copied the WASt.-lists by hand obviously didn't notice this and therefore gave the numeral of Lt. Abendroth's a/c as "white 1" which was also the source of my originally identifying the well known photo of the "white 1" as WerkNr. 330 204.

So: the photos of "white 1" show a Bf 109 K-4 of 9./JG 77 with so far unknown WerkNr., whereas Lt. Abendroth was shot down with "white 13", this being WerkNr. 330 204.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Jochen Prien