Bf 109 E-1s during the Battle of Britain

[Christer Bergström]

Okay, breaking the linguistical rules here - time for a lesson in Swedish:

Pratar du ärans och hjältarnas språk, svenska, olefebvre?

(Translation into English: "Do you speak the language of honour and heroes, Swedish, olefebvre?")

[olefebvre]

Actually i have not too much trouble reading it, but speaking and writing is out of my league. I'm able to understand a book like Nödlandning for instance, but of course with some troubles.

[RT]

Horst,

Losses come from Gen.verl.meld. nd break down is as follow,

under 50 % 280
50 % to 98 % /sorry no losses at 99 %/ 170
100 % 600

balance unknown % but gen ger.

to give truth to these figures the pilots killed or v.misst are ...160 killed+ 330 missing

E-1, we could find very late with LG2/SG1, nd in march/april 41 still in front line, against britain with JG51, JG54, JG3, last 12 nov. with JG54, in Siverskaya..

[Kurfürst]

Hopefully it is of some help :



Pardon for my ignorance, but let me ask a question of you, oh, learned ones.. I am looking for the details on the 109E armor protection development, can anyone give me an overview of it? Was it standard from the start, or on later machines, or just a retrofit..?