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Markings for GUSTAV 1/72

Bf 109G-5, WNr. 27119, Uffz. Gerhard Kroll, Ofw. Friedrich Ungar, Fw. Emil Hecker 9./JG 54, Ludwigslust, Germany, February 1944

The aircraft WNr. 27119 was flown by three different pilots of the 9./JG 54. These were Uffz. Gerhard Kroll, Ofw. Friedrich Ungar and Fw. Emil Hecker. The upper surfaces of this aircraft were painted with irregular patches of light color, probably RLM 76. The layout of the original camouflage fields was based on the Erla factory pattern. The wide blue band was marking of JG 54 machines. The III. Gruppe emblem of this Jagdgeschwader is located on the sides of the fuselage under the cockpit. The devil's head, photographically documented only on the left side of the engine cowling, was used by the 9. Staffel. This machine had gun cameras mounted in the leading edge of the wing. She was lost on April 8, 1944, when Uffz. Gerhard Kroll was shot down and wounded near Lüneburg. This aviator did not record any victories during his career but was shot down several times and suffered burns three times.

 

Bf 109G-5, WNr. 26082, Flg. Victor Widmaier, 7./JG 11, Oldenburg, Germany, October 1943

This aircraft belonged to JG 11 but was also flown by members of JG 300 as part of Wilde Sau tactics. Note the black paint on the lower right wing. The camouflage scheme was sprayed on the pattern used on the Bf 109G at the Erla factory in Leipzig. Flg. Victor Widmaier scored his first victory with this aircraft when he shot down a B-17 bomber on October 2, 1943. By the end of 1943, he had destroyed three more bombers of this type and in early January he scored a victory over a P-38. After III./JG 11 was rearmed with Fw 190s in February, Widmaier scored a victory over a B-17 and a P-47 on February 10, but suffered injuries after hit from another P-47 and bailed out of. He landed about 200 meters from the American pilot, who also bailed out by parachute. Widmaier underwent a surgery on the same evening, but after only two weeks he forced his return to the unit. He learned the pilot he had shot down fallen into captivity. It was probably a 20-year-old 2nd Lt. Merrill W. De Merit, Jr. of the 361st FG, 356th FG, who was on his fourth combat flight. Victor Widmaier died in 2011.

 

Bf 109G-5/U2, WNr. 27112, Maj. Walther Dahl, CO of III./JG 3, Bad Wörishofen, Germany, December 1943

Walther Dahl was born on March 27, 1916, in Lug. On May 1, 1939, he joined the Luftwaffe and became a fighter pilot. In May 1941, he was transferred to JG 3. Dahl achieved his first victory on June 22, 1941, in the Soviet Union and his last on April 26, 1945. On July 20, 1943, he became commander of III./JG 3 on the Eastern Front. In August his unit moved to Western Europe, at that time armed with Bf 109G-6s. In October his unit also received three G-5 version aircraft and by the end of the year the number had increased to nine. His rudder shows 52 Eastern Front victories instead of the 51 he was credited with. Images of the aircraft were taken sometimes between October 14 and December 19, 1943, during which time it achieved its fourth and fifth victories against American bombers. His total score was 128 kills, and he was awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves. Bf 109G-5 WNr. 27112 has RLM 76 paint on all surfaces, only the right, lower half of the wing is black. Maj. Walther Dahl survived the war and died on November 25, 1985.

 

Bf 109G-5, WNr. 110047, Ofw. Hanns-Werner Gross, 1./JG 300, Bonn-Hangelar, Germany, March 1944

This unusual camouflage scheme was seen on several JG 300 aircraft. These were deployed for night operational flights. The upper surfaces were painted over with RLM 76 and grey wavy lines. The exact shade used for the waves is unknown, but it was probably RLM 75 or RLM 74. The bottom surfaces were black. Hanns-Werner Gross was apparently shot down in this aircraft (WNr. 110047) over Pfungstadt near Darmstadt on March 18, 1944. His conqueror was probably a Mustang pilot from the 4th FG. Gross landed in a treetop on a parachute and was hanging some 15 meters above the ground in a landscape where there were hardly any trees. He lost his shoes during the jump. Soldiers, who at first thought him an enemy, helped him down and villagers found both his shoes. Gross continued to serve in I./JG 300 and in the last months of the war he converted for Me 262 jet.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 20499, Lt. Erich Hartmann, CO of 9./JG 52, New Zaporozhye, the Soviet Union, October 1943

With this aircraft, Erich Hartmann shot down his 121th victim on October 2, 1943. The same number of kills was also painted on the aircraft’s rudder. The red heart with the inscription Karaya was the emblem of the 9. Staffel of JG 52, which Hartmann commanded at the time. The white inscription Dicker Max in the heart can be translated as “Big Show”. The aircraft was built at the Wiener Neustadt Werke factory in a tropical finish and had hatches for the sunshade on the left side of the fuselage under the cockpit. It has been used extensively and had its camouflage repaired several times. Erich Hartmann became the most successful fighter ace not only in the Luftwaffe, but also in the history of aviation. He achieved his first victory on November 5, 1942 and his last victim number 352 was a Yak-9 shot down on May 8, 1945. Hartmann scored all of his victories on the Eastern Front. After the surrender he was captured by American troops, but they handed him over to the Soviets who sentenced him to 25 years of forced labor. After ten years he was repatriated to Germany and participated in the rebirth of the German Air Force. Hartmann became the recipient of the then highest German war decoration when he was awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds on August 25, 1944.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 20272, Oblt. Heinrich Klöpper, CO of 7./JG 1, Rheine, Germany, November 1943

A native of Peine in Lower Saxony, born on January 9, 1918 and future Knight’s Cross winner Heinrich Klöpper took part in the ranks of JG 77 in the Battle of France and in the Battle of Britain. He achieved one victory during both campaigns. After the start of Operation Barbarossa, as a member of the 11. Staffel of JG 51, he shot down another 80 enemy fighters between June 22, 1941 and November 1943. In early November 1943, he took command of the 7. Staffel JG 1, which was assigned to the Reich Defense Force (Reichsverteidigung). In this unit he shot down five four-engine B-17s, one B-24, and two P-38s. He was killed on November 29, 1943, when he was hit in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt during a dogfight with two P-38s over Vollenhove, the Netherlands. Some tactical formation commanders had the vertical tail surfaces spray-painted white for quicker identification of the leader in combat. The rudder bears the symbols of Klöpper’s victories.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr.18502 or 18503, Hptm. Horst Carganico, CO of II./JG 5, Pskov-South, the Soviet Union, early 1944

Horst Carganico was born on September 27, 1917 in Breslau (Wroclaw in Poland nowadays). The first combat unit to which the then twenty-two-year-old Lt. Carganico joined was JG 1 at the beginning of the war. This was followed by a return to Norway on January 1, 1941, where he served as commander of 1./JG 77. On September 25, 1941, Carganico was awarded the Knight’s Cross after achieving his 27th victory. In March 1942 Carganico’s unit was renamed 6./JG 5, but by April 1942 he had already taken command of the entire II. Gruppe. On March 26, 1944, he was appointed commander of I./JG 5, which participated in the fighting against the Allies as part of the Defense of the Reich. On May 27 of that year Major Carganico flew his last sortie. During an attack on a B-17 formation his Bf 109G-5 was badly damaged, hitting a high tension power line while attempting an emergency landing. He did not survive the crash near the French town of Chevry. Carganico’s total score stands at sixty kills in 600 missions. The camouflage of his aircraft was painted over with white and RLM 70 on the upper surfaces. Under the cockpit was the marking of II./JG 5 aircraft on both sides. On the left side of the fuselage behind the cockpit was Carganico’s personal emblem – Mickey Mouse dragging his boots with dates commemorating the pilot’s returns to the unit after emergency landings behind enemy lines. On the right side of the fuselage, there was probably the marking of the Gruppe commander – a double chevron and a horizontal bar.

 

Bf 109G-6 Trop, WNr. 27169, Fw. Heinrich Bartels, 11./JG 27, Kalamaki, Greece, November 1943

Austrian Heinrich Bartels was born on July 13, 1918, in Linz. He began his career as a fighter pilot over the English Channel, where as a member of the Erg./JG 26, he shot down two Spitfires in August 1941. He then went on to the ranks of JG 5 in northern Europe, where he scored 47 victories against the Soviet air force. The remainder of his 99 victories came in the ranks of JG 27. Fateful to Bartels was an encounter with American fighters on December 23, 1944. He managed to shoot down one of the Thunderbolts, but he did not return to the base. The wreckage of his aircraft was not found until a quarter of a century later in January 1968. An unused parachute was found in the cockpit, which is now on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. Bartels’ Bf 109G-6 is shown as it was captured in photographs taken on the occasion of scoring his 70th kill. The photographs can thus be dated to November 15, 1943. A total of 70 Abschussbalken (victory marks) are painted on the rudder along with the Knight’s Cross, which Bartels had received a year earlier, on November 13, 1942. The sawtooth border of camouflage paint on the upper surface of the wing is typical of some of the aircraft produced at the Erla factory in 1943.

 

Bf 109G-6 Trop, Oblt. Alfred Grislawski, CO of 1./JG 50, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany, September 1943

Alfred Grislawski was born on November 2, 1919, in Wanne-Eickel in the Ruhr. Jagdgeschwader 50 was formed on August 15, 1943, by renaming the Jagdgeschwader Süd, which had already been engaged in the pursuit of reconnaissance Mosquitos flying at high altitudes since July 21. However, only its I. Gruppe was formed. It was led by Hermann Graf, who was also the force behind the creation of the Gruppe emblem painted on the left side of the fuselage below the cockpit. The figure of the Roten Jäger (the Red Hunter) symbolized the Luftwaffe football team, in which Graf played together with a number of the German national team at the time, and which was known as die Roten Jäger. Alfred Grislawski commanded the 1. Staffel of this unit, as evidenced by the white-colored tail, reserved for the commanders of the combat formations. JG 50 existed for a relatively short period of time, becoming part of I./JG 301 in October 1943. Grislawski then served with JG 1 and JG 53, increasing his score to 133 victories by the end of the war. His achievements earned him the Knight’s Cross, which he was awarded on July 1, 1943. On April 11, 1944, he received the Oak leaves.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 18107, Uffz. Georg Amon, 7./JG 53, Torazzo, Sicily, June 1943

Georg Amon was born on July 1, 1920. He joined the Luftwaffe in 1941 and began fighter training in January 1942. In September 1942, he was assigned to 7./JG 53, which was then in the African theater. In the summer of 1943, the Luftwaffe was under great pressure from Allied air raids, resulting in the withdrawal from the African theatre of operations and the subsequent capture of Sicily as German forces retreated to Italy. This aircraft was manufactured in April or early May 1943 at the Messerschmitt plant in Regensburg. The camouflage of RLM 74, 75 and 76 colors was complemented by splotches of RLM 02 on the fuselage sides. The color of the limbs of the Spade floating in the boat is not completely confirmed, the blue color is based on the theory that der Seemann (sailor), which was Amon’s nickname, wore blue clothing. The aircraft was lost on July 3, 1943, when Uffz. Walter Reinicke was shot down flying it, falling in captivity. In January 1944, Georg Amon began working as a fighter instructor in the south of France. The last day of Georg Amon’s wartime career was April 2, 1945. He was shot down by American anti-aircraft half-track fire. He jumped from a low-flying, burning aircraft. With serious burns, he was captured and survived the war. Georg Amon achieved nine victories.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 19456, Oberst Hannes Trautloft, Stab General der Jagdflieger, the Soviet Union, August 1943

This aircraft was originally manufactured as the Bf 109G-4 with the factory code CL+OQ and was assigned to 6./JG 27 in the Mediterranean. After being severely damaged at Trapani on May 10, 1943, it was converted to the G-6 version during an overhaul and accepted by the Stab of General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland. In the summer and autumn of 1943, the plane was used by Oberst Trautloft, the inspector for fighter units on the Eastern Front. The aircraft bore a markings that tied it to JG 54, the unit he was previously commanding. However, Günther Lützow, then inspector for fighter units in the West and MTO, was also photographed in its cockpit. Hannes Trautloft began his fighting career in the Spanish Civil War. There he flew the Bf 109 and was instrumental in developing the tactics for the deployment of this type. He also flew in the Polish campaign and the French campaign. During each conflict he scored at least one victory. On August 25, 1940, he became commander of the newly formed JG 54. Trautloft’s overall record totals 58 victories, and he was able to pin the Knight’s Cross on July 27, 1941. The aircraft bears the standard RLM 74/75/76 camouflage scheme, with splotches of what was probably RLM 70 green paint on the fuselage

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 163627, ylikersantti Leo Ahokas, 3/HLeLv 24, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 1944

Leo Ahokas was born on April 25, 1915, in Jaakkima, Karelia, a town annexed by the then Soviet Union in 1940. He received pilot training from 1936–1937, and after mobilization at the start of the Winter War was sent to training unit T-LentoR 2, then in February 1940 to LLv 24, armed with Hurricanes and Brewsters. He was demobilized after the end of the Winter War. He joined LLv 32 for further military service on June 3, 1941, later LLv 24 armed with American Brewsters. In 1943, this unit received Messerschmitts Bf 109G. Ylikersantti Ahokas demobilized on November 10, 1944, and worked as a driver in civilian life. He died on October 25, 1988. During the Continuation War he flew a total of 189 combat sorties and shot down 12 enemy aircraft. The standard-camouflaged Bf 109G-6 from the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg was supplemented with the yellow recognition markings of the machines from the Eastern Front after being assigned to the Finnish Air Force. On the rudder it bore the new emblem HLeLv 24, the head of a lynx.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 163162, 2a Squadriglia, 2o Gruppo Caccia, Verona-Villafranca, Italy, October 1944

The Aeronautica Nazionalle Repubblicana (ANR) was the air force possessed by the Italian Socialist Republic, which was formed in late September 1943 in the northern part of Italy and was an ally of the German Third Reich. At first the ANR deployed Italian-built fighters, later receiving German Bf 109Gs. From October 1944, the 109s bore a combination of German insignia and the insignia of the Italian Socialist Republic. On the nose was painted a cartoon of a red devil, emblem of 2a Squadriglia, which was called Diavoli Rossi.

 

Bf 109G-6, WNr. 161742, Rtk. Rudolf Božik, Combined Flight, Slovak National Uprising, Tri Duby airflield, Slovakia, September 1944

Rudolf Božík was born on July 10, 1920, in Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou. In January 1940, he voluntarily enlisted in the Slovak army and completed his basic military and pilot training in Piešťany. In June 1943 he was sent to the Eastern Front. He flew with the Letka 13 (Squadron 13, subordinated to II./JG 52) in Anapa, over Kuban and the Black Sea. On July 26, 1943, he achieved his first two kills. He scored six more by September 26, 1943, on that day he crashed during takeoff and suffered a severe spinal injury. At the end of October 1943, he was transported to Slovakia for treatment. From January 31, 1944, he served at Vajnory airfield, again in Letka 13, which was withdrawn from the Eastern Front to defend Bratislava from American air raids. On June 26, 1944, he damaged one B-17, but in dogfights with American escorts, Letka 13 was decimated. Only four Bf 109G-6s could be used for the Slovak National Uprising (SNP). The Bf 109G-6 had the standard Mtt Regensburg RLM 74/75/76 camouflage. The original Slovakian crosses were oversprayed with insurgent markings. The red section was always on the right. The markings on the wing had a red outline, sometimes a blue outline is mentioned, so both variants are offered in the decal. The insignia on the tail have a blue outline. Božik is credited with three kills of German aircraft during the SNP. After the SNP he was transported to the USSR and joined the 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Aviation Regiment.

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