109G-6 or later with 20mm-Gondolas in the East?

[Juha]

Thanks George.

On Lt. Ewald, talked on this last evening with a friend and he told me that in his memoirs Ewald tells flying G-6/R6 and that he liked the plane and tells, like Finnish Kössi and Tappi, that with skilful use of throttle G-6/R6 was almost as manoeuvrable as plain G-6, which IIRC was anyway a minority opinion. But I don’t have the book and forgot to ask is there a photo on the plane in the book. But a possible lead.

Looked more carefully my collection of Finnish books on LW over here and in Norway and found one profile drawing in Hannu Valtonen’s Pohjoinen Ilmasota (1996) published by Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (The Aviation Museum of Central Finland) (One can see the front cover of the book here http://www.airforcemuseum.fi/hannu_v...oinen_ilmasota)
on page 242 and it showed a Bf 109G-6/R6 of 9./III./JG 5 “White 2” at Kirkkoniemi Oct. 44.

So these seems to be some G-6/R6s around on Eastern front but they were rare.

Juha