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Erganzungs-Schlachtgruppe- 1./Erg. Zerst. Gr.
Erg.Zerst.Gr. - Erg�nzungs-Zerstörergruppe
Messerschmitt Bf 110Bf 110 Zerstorer Stab I.Erg Zerstorergruppe (1E+9B) force landed
Photo 01: Jet & Prop 2009-06
Messerschmitt Bf 110 Erganzungs Zerstorergruppe (1E+NL) Vaerlose Denmark 1940
Photo 01: Bf 110 Erganzungs Zerstorergruppe (1E+NL) Vaerlose Denmark 1940
This would make a fanyastic IL2 someone out their please make this skin.Messerschmitt Bf 110G2 Erganzungs Zerstorergruppe (1E+LE) based Illesheim Germany 1944
Profile 01: Messerschmitt Bf 110G2 Erganzungs Zerstorergruppe (1E+LE) over Sagan but based in Illesheim Germany Spring 1944
Book Reference: Jet & Prop Foto-Archiv Band 7
'Mystery of the Deaths Head'. By von Axel Urbanke.
This Photograph of a Bf-110E wearing a 'Death's Head' emblem first appeared in Karl Ries Book Photo Collection - Luftwaffe Emblems 1935-45.
Identified as belonging to III./ZG 76,only one photograph of this aircraft was known to exist. No unit code or other markings are visible to suggest that the aircraft belonged to III./ZG 76. It therefore cannot be proved that the "Death's Head" was the Gruppe emblem of III./ZG 76 or that the aircraft belonged to that unit.
A photo published in Jet & Prop Archive No.4 (Photo 69),in which the "Death's Head" may have been behind an aircraft of 1./Eganzungszertorergruppe,does prove however,that this strikingly marked machine was in Denmark for a time.
I./ErZGR,Was stationed in Denmark from June 1940 to September 1941,mainly at Vaerlose and Kastrup,before it became 5./NJG 3.
That III./ZG 76 happened to be stationed in the same area from Autumn 1940 until April 1941, based at Stavanger-Sola,is not enough to conclusively link the "Death's Head" emblem with the Gruppe.
Furthurmore,if the "Death's Head" in fact was the Gruppe emblem of III./ZG 76,it would be very curious that only a few photographs of aircraft so marked have surfaced.
There has been speculation about the exact shape of the "Death's Head" and the "Crossbones". We are at least able to clear upthis matter on the basis of two recently discovered photos, which are presented here,showing all details of the painted emblem. Because it shows the aircraft being serviced with propeller removed,the photo above may have been taken on the same occasion as the one in the Jet & Prop photo archive. Unfortunately,no unit code is visible in either photo. The questions therefore open as to which unit this or simillarly marked machines and whether the "Death's Head" was a unit emblem or a personal marking.
Based on this article I have supplied a No Code so I./ErZGR codes can be added if required.
Luftwaffe pilot Walter Nowotny 258 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Theodor Weissenberger 208 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Heinz Bar 175 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Franz Schall 133 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Rudolf Rademacher 126 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland 104 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Hermann Buchner 58 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hohagen 50 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Rudolf Sinner 39 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow 32 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Richard Altner 25 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Gunther Wegmann 21 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Wolfgang Schenck 18 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Franz Holzinger 10 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Helmut Lennartz 10 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Alfred 'Bubi' Schreiber 9 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Eduard Schallmoser 3 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Wilhelm Batel 1 kills
Luftwaffe pilot Joachim Fingerlos 1 kills
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Magazine References: +
- Airfix Magazines (English) - http://www.airfix.com/
- Avions (French) - http://www.aerostories.org/~aerobiblio/rubrique10.html
- FlyPast (English) - http://www.flypast.com/
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- Flugzeug Classic (German) - http://www.flugzeugclassic.de/
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- Revi Magazines (Czech) - http://www.revi.cz/
Web References: +
- Wikipedia.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt
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