Has Anyone seen this before?

[Adriano Baumgartner]

JIM,

On the first Picture you posted, what took my attention are the two rings onto the spinner of the machine, possibly denoting it belongs to someone special, maybe a Staffelkapitân or either the Gruppenkommandeur. Sadly the image is blured or shaken...

The second Picture do give us a "possible standard", during an unknown frame of time, of painting the "wifes or girl friends' names onto the fuselage". This is the second machine with a female name painted, like that one from Chris...so, maybe at one time (before or at the beginning of the war) this was "nicht Verbotten".

Very interesting aspects here...maybe further pictures arise to verify the practice and what was the motivation behind this kind of standard.

Nice thread (Chris) by the way and congratulations for a good memory Jim!

A.