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Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Focke Wulf Fw 190 - Jagdflieger Karl Walz am Kanal 1943 - ebay photo find #354

Loss data for Uffz. Karl Walz shot down on July 1, 1943

Walz was flying a 2./JG 1 Fw 190 A-5, WNr. 410198. Shot down 5-10 km west of the Hook of Holland + Absturz nach Luftkampf mit P-47. Bruch 100 %. Uffz Walz tot angeschwemmt. (via Matti Salonen)

Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Jagdflugzeug Fw 190 und Klaus Mietusch vom J.G.26 im 2.WK - ebay photo find #261

Bf 109 G-6 with retrofitted Erla-Haube W.Nr. unknown "schwarze 22", Gruppenkommandeur Klaus Mietusch, Stab III./JG 26. See also Jochen Prien et al. 2017, JFV 13/III, p. 107 for a selection of images depicting Mietusch climbing from 'schwarze 20' 'simulating' a return from a successful sortie and taken by a PK reporter on the occasion of Mietusch's RK award, 26 March 1944.

more on offer here

Also on this blog;

More unknown pilots and aces of JG 26 here

Above; Klaus Mietusch, Gruppenkommandeur III./JG 26 - click on the image to view at full size - and below with members of his Stabsschwarm. He had joined 7./JG 26 in September 1939 and from September 1941 was Staffelkapitän. On 5 July 1943 he was appointed Kdr. of III./JG 26. His victory over a USAAF B-17 four-engine heavy bomber on 25 July 1943 was the first of 16 four-engine bombers that he was to claim. His 50th victory was a B-17 shot down over Cambrai on 20 October 1943. During the course of the 8 March 1944 raid on Berlin Mietusch claimed a B-17 Herausschuss for his 60th victory. Awarded the RK after 63 vics. Mietusch was KIA on 17 September 1944 over Arnhem (72 victories)

Wednesday, 7 March 2018

More Nahaufklärungsgruppe 13 NAG 13 Fw 190 at Cuers, south of France, April 1944 -ebay photo find #243

more scenes from Cuers in the south of France, home to short-range recce Staffel 2./NAG 13 pre-D-day, " one of our Fw 190s, April 1944.."

on offer here

More Channel Front early Fw 190s

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and Flugplatz Orel in the East via Marko Auer

Saturday, 23 April 2016

Focke Wulf Fw 189 & Bf 109 G Nahaufklärungsstaffel - daily ebay photo find #175

According to seller Heiko Fuchs the following images depict Nahaufklärer FW 189 Uhu of Aufklärungsstaffel 4.(H) 11 somewhere in the East. They are from the album of one of the unit's former pilots Heinz Haßler who was a recce pilot - Aufklärungsflieger - with Nahaufklärungsstaffel 4./H./11 and who also flew Bf 109s with 2.Tannenberg-Staffel (on this blog here) before being KIA in Italy.

More from this 2.Tannenberg-Staffel sequence on this blog here
Below; the Staffel celebrates 1000 sorties. On offer here

Friday, 11 October 2013

I./JG 1 surrender their He 162 jets at Leck on 8 May 1945

I./JG 1 surrender their He 162 jets at Leck on 8 May 1945 (according to the inscription on the reverse of these images currently on offer via Heiko Fuchs Ebay sales). Personal accounts document the mix of resignation and relief felt by those stragglers from JG 4 who had managed to fall back to Schleswig Holstein to surrender to the British alongside their comrades from JG 1. This extract from the JG 4 war diary for Sunday 06 May 1945 taken from my own translation of Eric Mombeek's history of JG 4 (Vol II)..

"..Our aircraft, vehicles and other equipment are lined up as if for one last parade. The sight is an impressive one and will certainly give the British food for thought. We are proud to show off more than one hundred of our aircraft like this - from the ultra -modern Me 262 and He 162 that have flown only limited numbers of combat sorties - to the Bf 109 and Fw 190 fighters that have returned victories in thousands of successful air battles. All will pass into enemy hands. This afternoon several light tanks and trucks bring RAF ground forces onto the airfield. Oberst Nordmann, and then the Kommodore and Kommandeure, have to go before the Colonel commanding the RAF forces. To our great surprise they receive a handshake by way of greeting! However while we are airmen together we remain sceptical as to what may follow the courtesies that our extended to us: what will happen when the other occupation forces arrive? The first orders are to draw up an inventory of all our matériel. All weapons must be handed in apart from the officers side-arms...."

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Fw 190 F-8 of II./ SG 2 and Bf 109 F of JG 53 in Sicily

Fw 190 F-8 of II./ SG 2 and Bf 109 F of JG 53 in Sicily

Heiko Fuchs current Ebay sales list

http://www.ebay.de/sch/m.html?item=290933956840&pt=Militaria&hash=item43bd03e0e8&_ssn=antikfuchs1&_pgn=3&_skc=100&rt=nc

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Focke Wulf 190 in Sicily - Ebay photo find

Ju 88 D "Vi+N." most probably on the strength of 4.(F)/122 seen at Rome Ciampino-Nord during 1943

below; inscription on the reverse reads " Fw 190 on Sicily, 1943". According to the seller this Fw 190 is a " Jagdbomber mit Tarnanstrich für Nachteinsätze" -a Jabo fighter bomber finished in a camo scheme for night operations....the black distemper obscuring both national insiginia and Staffelkennzeichen rather recalls the finish given to Fw 190s of the SKG that operated night sorties over the UK during April 1943 - the remnants of that unit were in fact posted to Sicily in advance of the Allied invasion which took place in the summer of 1943...

Review of Morten Jessen and Andrew Arthy's "Fw 190 in the battle for Sicily"
http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/focke-wulf-190-in-battle-for-sicily.html

Below; Dornier Do 215 B, personal transport of the Oberbefehlshaber Süd later Südwest, GFM Albert Kesselring, photographed at Rome Ciampino-Nord during 1943...

Ju 52/3m of III./KGrzbV 1 with bear emblem photographed at Rome Ciampino-Nord during 1943. On the left, engine technician Günther Bruns of the 7 Werkstattzug der Fliegerhorstergänzungsgruppe Kommandantur Afrika seen maintaining the starboard BMW 132 engine.

Monday, 26 November 2012

Daily Ebay.de photo find - some search tips

You probably already know this, but why not set up your own daily Ebay.de list search - its a lot easier than you think..

When searching Ebay for Luftwaffe photos I tend to look first at certain 'preferred' sellers, eg Marco at koelsch333, Heiko Fuchs or Michael Meyer ( see tag links below... )

But it is fairly straight forward to set up a daily e-mail schedule which will send lists of photo links and an over-view of your preferred search items direct to your in-box..

go to ebay.de and add your search words in the search box - you will need to use some very basic German words that you will probably already be familiar with eg 'Flugzeug' (aircraft), Jagdflieger (fighter pilot), 'Besatzung' (crew) 'Staffelabzeichen' (Staffel emblem),'Fliegerhorst' or 'Flugplatz' (airfield), or even the rather English-looking 'Pilot im Cockpit'. Obviously if you are looking for photos precede your search word with 'Foto' or 'Aufnahme' (photo) or 'Abzug' (print) or 'Bild' and 'Bilder' (picture/pictures) A simple 'Foto Cockpit' brings up 40 results today alone..

You will get a list of search results eg "135 Ergebnisse gefunden = results found.."

135 Ergebnisse gefunden für Foto Junkers Suche speichern

to the right of your search results you will see a clickable link "Suche speichern" = "save search"

click on "save search" to bring up a box ; the text translates " send daily email when new items are offered corresponding to your search criteria ". Ensure the check box is ticked -

hey presto, you will henceforth receive a daily email of your stored searches. Fill in as many searches as required eg " Foto Staffel Wappen " " Foto Luftwaffe Flugzeug " " Foto Fw 190....etc

Other useful search words are 'Top' ( which basically means excellent or 'ausgezeichnet') and words such as 'selten' (rare) or 'Archiv' or 'Original' etc etc. Add some basic abbreviations such as JG or NJG if night fighters are of interest for example....

Selection of Stukas and other Eastern Front machines found today and currently on offer at Ebay.de

http://www.ebay.de/itm/L5-Foto-Flugzeug-Aircraft-Luftwaffe-Gepanzerter-Schlachtflieger-Zementbombe-WKII-/170948839470?pt=Militaria&hash=item27cd58482e&_uhb=1#ht_500wt_899

Sturmovik known to the Germans as the Zementbomber

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Henschel-HS-123-flugzeug-Doppeldecker-foto-/221156459604?pt=Militaria&hash=item337df3c454#ht_500wt_788

Ju 87 D-3 of StG 77 over Kharkov's 'Roter Platz' (Red Square)

Ju 87 D 3./SG 77 mit 300 Liter Zusatztanks Rosenborn 1944

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Foto-Luftwaffe-Flugzeug-Ju-87-D-3-SG-77-mit-300-Liter-Zusatztanks-Rosenborn-44-/380524537982?pt=Militaria&hash=item589907a87e&_uhb=1#ht_500wt_899

http://www.ebay.de/itm/P174-PK-Pressebild-Italien-Griechenland-JU88-Flugzeug-vom-LG1-Staffelabzeichen-/390501535534?pt=Militaria&hash=item5aebb48f2e#ht_606wt_1008

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Leica-Foto-Russland-1941-Shitomir-Kirowograd-groses-Flugzeug-von-vorne-34-/181031164698?pt=Militaria&hash=item2a264c5b1a#ht_500wt_1022

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Orig-Foto-Luftwaffe-Flugzeug-Messerschmitt-Me-321-Segelflugzeug-/110981649631?pt=Militaria&hash=item19d70594df&_uhb=1#ht_500wt_899