Oblt W.Schroer, 109G, 8/JG27 with a red rudder ?

[Nefiakoff]

Hello,

Jerry Scutts – “Bf 109 Aces of North Africa and the Mediterranean” (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces vol. 2), profile of Schroer’s Bf 109 G-2/Trop “red 1”, staffelkapitän 8./ JG 27 at Rhodes, Feb. 1943: red rudder with 60 small white victory bars, white spinner and the fuselage band.
No yellow color at all, no white parts of wings.
On profiles in the other sources – rudder is always red.
It’s possible that victory bars were only on the left side of the rudder, but I’m not sure.
From the other hand it is good visible on the photos that spinner is black/white.
By the way – wasn’t Schroer in the rank of Hauptmann in that time? (some sources states that, Scutts also).

Marseille’s Bf 109 F-4/Trop W.Nr. 8693, Feb. 1942 – light brown rudder (brown red?). I think red is a mistake.

Bf 109 E-7/Trop “black 8” – I had informations until now that Schroer (as Leutnant) was flying this machine in April 1941, Gazala. But, indeed, he had to be a member of 1. Staffel – there is popular photo of 1./JG 27 pilots (Schroer as Fw.?, Redlich, Kaiser, Espenlaub and others) preparing to their long overwater flight from Catania to Gazala in early April.

Found in Ring/Girbig’s “Jagdgeschwader 27” – Feldwebel Franz Elles, 2./ JG 27, 5 victories, PoW December 11th 1941.
Hope he was the person You were writing about, Leo.

Regards

Nef