Siebel Si 204 with FuG - ebay photo find #388

 

A rare interesting ebay photo find from the Petrick repro sale. Siebel Si 204 trainer fitted with FuG airborne search radar for training Nachtjagd Bordfunker. Thanks to Pablo for the heads-up.

II./JG 77 Emil and Friedrich - ebay photo find #388

 

According to the seller this is a II./JG 77 Emil - and I'm inclined to think that he is correct. But for the II. Gruppe bar I might have said this was a I.(J)/LG 2 machine. Note narrow fuselage band ahead of the Kennung, yellow cowl and the interesting 'stripey mottling' probably of 71 and 02. Wing tips appear to be white..

See today's 'Featured blog post' entitled "..from Larissa to Salonika.." for similarly marked II./JG 77 machines in Greece during April 1941..(especially the combination of white wingtips and yellow rudder/cowl)

Another JG 77 Emil in Greece - note 'R' Richthofen badge beneath the cockpit...

Below; Another ex-JG 2 Bf 109 E in Greece,  JG 77 ace Emil Omert in the cockpit probably at Molaoi

 

Staying with the same seller, this is a neat view of Anton Hackl's 5./JG 77 Bf 109 F-4 'black 5' during the summer of 1942 (Crimea). Note the Seeadler emblem ahead of the cockpit..

Also on this blog;

Herbert Ihlefeld Kommandeur I.(J)/LG 2

Dora-9 im Einsatz - Fw 190 D-9 in service with III./JG 54 -ebay photo find #375

 

The dispersal of the Peter Petrick archive continues apace via Oliver Rogge's ebay auction pages (Kurmark Antik). While published in many books that feature the D-9 (since Lorant's 'Focke Wulf Fw 190' first appeared in the early 1980s) this selection features one or two 'new' images. Two of my purchases from Oliver's offers have just arrived and they are pretty decent quality - in fact I'm told they are prints from Ungar's original negatives.

The Fw 190 D-9 entered service with III. Gruppe of JG 54 'Grünherz' during October 1944 at Achmer (12. Staffel) and Hesepe (9. Staffel), where they were deployed to cover Me 262 Kommando Nowotny 'Turbos'. While the first Doras in service undoubtedly piqued the interest of their pilots, according to Fw. Fritz Ungar of 9./ JG 54,  the sole reason for this picture series was to record the Staffel fox terrier mascot 'Struppi' for posterity. There is unfortunately no complete view of either "White 2" or "White 3". "White 2" was WNr. 210015 which was lost over Hesepe on 15 October 1944 after being shot down by 83FS T'bolts. Lt. Fritz Bartak  was wounded but managed to bail out.

Below; another view of 'Struppi', this time in the cockpit of  9./JG 54's 'white 3' with Fritz Ungar. "White 3" was the eighth series production machine (Wnr. 210008). Note the reinforcing strip required by the installation of the Jumo 213 to the 190 fuselage.

'Struppi'  enjoying the attention of the mechanics of 9./JG 54 perched on the horizontal stabiliser of  "White 3". Note the jack/support under the rear fuselage keeping the tail wheel just off the ground.  The aircraft finish again appears highly polished. Note that 'white 2' and 'white 3' have different style fuselage Balkenkreuze..

Peter Petrick archive sale - Junkers Ju 188s of KG 2 - ebay photo find #372 and archive photo scan #19

 

some nice Ju 188s from the on-going Petrick archive sale via Oliver Rogge. Many of these images were published by Ulf Balke in his German-language KG 2 history -  at FalkeEins the Luftwaffe blog we have scanned a number of them from his archive, now owned by another collector. Note the example in flight below - as posted on Oliver Rogge's current ebay auction and a copy scanned and enhanced from the damaged and dark original.. 

and from a 1962 Heinz Nowarra article;

"..whether it was a 188, a 288 or a 388, it was still an 88.."

Click on the 'archive photo scan series' link just below to see all recent images scanned in for this blog

more from the Petrick archive sale - Hs 123 - ebay photo find #371

 

according to the original owner's caption the Henschel Hs-123 A-1 (nearest camera) was flown by the StaKa of 3./Fliegergruppe 50 (1938)

More Hs 123 from the Petrick archive..

 

Erich Hondt JG 11 - ebay photo find #370

..this 'repro' photo close-up of Erich Hondt's Fw 190 JG 11 scoreboard just sold for 106 euros. Had the buyer emailed me directly I'd have happily sold him a similar 'repro' for half that amount! While I imagine Oliver Rogge is very pleased, some people surely have more money than sense! 

Erich Hondt’s A-5/U12 was WNr 410 266 ‘schwarze 13'

Me 163 BV 21 VA+SS - ebay photo find #369

Peenemünde-West, June 1943. Me 163 B V21 'VA+SS' with test pilot Heinrich Dittmar posing with the aircraft prior to its first 'hot' flight on June 24, 1943 with Lt. Opitz at the controls. Repros currently on offer from Oliver Rogge.

Also on this blog; 

Dittmar and the Me 163 B V18 - world speed record, July 1944

Siebel Sh 104 Kesselring, Ju 290 Alles Kaputt, Willow Grove Me 262 Beute machines - ebay photo find #344

 

Also on this blog;

  Adolf Galland's Siebel Fh 104 'Reisemachine'

How the Junkers Ju 290 'Alles Kaputt' went to America

Aufklärungsgruppe Ju 88 and Do 17 - Ebay photo find #338

 

Aufklärungsgruppe Ju 88 D1 (no sign of any underwing bomb racks) probably from 1. (F) 122 based in Greece in early 1944. According to the annotation, a 'souvenir snapshot taken prior to our Feindflug (combat sortie) of March 25, 1944 which ended in a crash landing'. Interesting spinner decoration....and fourth image below, " Athens..from 800 meters.." showing the 'effectiveness' of this dappled finish in action.

 

More recce machines - Western Front Phoney War Do 17 P with a 'comic' Staffel emblem depicting the British and the French (in the form of Chamberlain and Marianne) chasing a fox that has just raided the hen house..

Oliver Rogge's Ebay sales page is here