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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.
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