..the best known and documented machine of one of the best known Ritterkreuzträger of the Luftwaffe, Marseille flew this 3./JG 27 F-4/Trop 'ge 14 +' WNr. 8693 during February 1942. An Erla-built machine that likely arrived in North Africa during January 1942. In fact Marseille was on home leave that month and may well have ferried it back on his return to the front. He flew it consistently during February 1942 and gained victories 37 through 52. Another Hasegawa 48th Friedrich finished as per the detailed description and photographic references in the indispensible Air Power Editions volume on Marseille's machines published in 2007 and compiled by James Kitchens and John Beaman.
- standard F-4/ Trop
- no armour glass windscreen
- deeper 'G' style oil cooler
- flat plate head armour with no curved section
- both upper wing Balkenkreuze had flaked
- no white wingtips -upper or lower- and no whitewall tyres
- solid white spinner and oil tank section
- rudder repainted in a dark colour. Possibly red-brown primer (possibly red, possibly dark green)
- open-style 'figure '4' and standard factory-applied tropical scheme of sandgelb 79 over 78
