Eagle Head Motif on the Fw 190

[Maciej Góralczyk]

Originally Posted by Rabe Anton

Just for fun, I have been building a table listing all known Black Eagle Fw 190s from III./JG 2. I have now 19 of them from photos. The last one that I have is a Fw 190A-5 which was damaged on the first of May 1943.

Did you count Wurmheller's WNr. 2648? Photos show 73 vics recorded on the rudder, last one being scored on June 28, 1943 - see JFV 10/IV, s.197. BTW, s.195 features another photo of a Black-Eagle A-5 with 2./JG 2 personnel, captioned as taken at the end of June 1943.