He 114 - Pinguin - Hilfskreuzer

[sveahk]

Thanks Merlin, RolandF and Seaplanes - you opened my eyes to the complexity in the numbering of the Seaplane units during the war, and especially the role the He 114 played therein!!

But I've to come back - a last time - to my first question:
Do you know if the two He 114 B, belonging to 5./Bordfl.St.196 that were aboard the HSK PINGUIN, had any kind of penguin-marking - like the one we see in the photo above? Or, because of their sometimes clandestine role out on the oceans, they were left without any special markings?

Greetings
Hans K

[Seaplanes]

Sorry, forgot about that. The crew on board "Pinguin" came from Bordfliegerstaffel 5./196 so if the aircraft came from the same unit, they would most likely carry the unit crest of this Staffel, an old type sailing ship with three sails on top of waves. However, many of the aircraft on board the raiders were either neutreal without markings or even painted up as Allied aircraft to mislead crews on Allied ships. The Pinguin crest was used by 1. and 3./Aufklärungsfliegergruppe 125. I believe that the 2. Staffel had another crest.