Scanned by this blogger from an image in an album previously owned by Ulf Balke, author of a two-volume history of KG 2, this photo shows an 'anonymous' KG 2 Do 217 M-1 (....and crew). The M-1 was a night bomber variant, equivalent to the Do 217 K, but powered by the liquid-cooled DB 603 and operated by III./KG 2 from mid-1943. Note the absence of exhaust flame dampers - perhaps a shot taken during conversion training in Coulommiers during the spring of 1943. Click to view large....
new for 2025, an M-1 variant from ICM in 48th scale
