more Fw 190s scanned - #36 in a series of photos scanned for this blog..
Staffelkapitän 2./JG 11 Erich Hondt’s A-5/U12 WNr 410 266 ‘schwarze 13' with the Staffelzeichen on the cowl. Hondt's machine displayed the so-called Schwarmführerstreifen or red diagonal stripes of a Schwarm leader along the fuselage sides appearing as a 'Vee' from above..The U12
Rüstsatz comprised underwing gondolas each containing a pair of MG 151 cannon, one of the few armament
Rüstsätze to reach operational status
Ofw. Bigge's 'Black 2' of the Fw 190 nightfighter Staffel 2./JG 2 in the early summer of 1943 in western France seen flipped over after a bombing raid according to the hand-written caption on the image - or as a result of a landing accident on 6 September 1943 according to another source....Fw 190s of this Staffel were finished in overall 76..
Another JG 11
Kanonenboot with the underwing
Gondelwaffen
..and from the ongoing Petrick archive ebay sell off. Oskar Romm's Dora seen in Prenzlau, March 1945. I don't recall this image from Jochen Prien's history of IV./JG 3. A nice find...
Werfer rocket launcher-toting A-7/8s of I./JG 26 getting airborne from a field strip in western France during the summer of 1944. These aircraft were used with limited success on ground attack sorties against Allied armour and road convoys..
