Markings for Bf-109G-10 WNF 1/48

Bf 109G-10/U4, II./JG 52, Brno, Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren, April 1945

The II./JG 51 was disbanded on April 5, 1945, at Fels am Wagram and part of its pilots and the equipment was transferred to JG 52. One of such aircraft was the Bf 109G-10/U4 with the name Rosemarie painted on the port side. The original unit can be determined thanks to the overpainted marking which location was exclusively used by II./JG 51.

Bf 109G-10/U4, WNr. 612769, 101. vadászezred, Neubiberg airfield, Germany, May 1945

In the end of March 1945, the remaining Hungarian units were concentrated at Tulln airport in Austria from where they flew sorties to the areas of Vienna and Brno. After the front approached Tulln on April 5, 1945, they relocated to Raffelding airport, from where they continued in the air support of the land forces in the vicinity of Vienna. At the end of the war, the Hungarian airmen, same as their German comrades-in-arms, better surrendered to the American Army therefore the 101. vadaszezred pilots flew over to the Bavarian Neubiberg with the remaining aircraft. Airframes manufactured in Diana plant were camouflaged in the same colors as the airframes from Wiener Neustadt plant. From the photographs of “yellow 12” it is obvious that the Hungarian national markings were spray-painted directly on the factory camouflage. The German markings had not been applied at all. Part of the wing undersurfaces remained in the natural metal color.

Bf 109G-10/U4, WNr. 611048, II./JG 52, Neubiberg airfield, Germany, May 1945

In the middle of April 1945, II./JG 52 relocated from Fels am Wagram airport to Hosching airport from where it pilots flew the missions to support the German units and to counteract the Soviet offensive during the battle of Brno. Fighter sorties against the American units over Austria and Southern Czechia were also on cards. In the beginning of May, the relocation to Zeltweg followed and from there, on May 8, 1945, all airworthy planes took off for Bavarian Neubiberg, where the pilots were captured by the American Army. Camouflage of this aircraft consisted of spray-painted RLM 75/83 colors on the upper surfaces and RLM 76 on the bottoms and was complimented by the Luftflotte 4 recognition marking introduced on March 7, 1945, in the form of yellow painted nose and rudder. Before the assignment to II./JG 52 the aircraft had served with another unit, its original marking was overpainted in the camouflage color. The rudder features seven kill markings.

Bf 109G-10/U4, Jasta 5 der ROA, Nemecky Brod, Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren, May 1945

In the beginning of March 1945, Jasta 5 of the Russian Liberation Army led my Major S. T. Bychkov was located at Deutsch Brod (nowadays Havlíčkův Brod) airfield. Together with the Nachtschlachtstaffel 8 of the ROA, equipped with Ju 87D-5 dive bombers, Jasta 5 participated in the German units’ battles of retreat during the fight for Brno in April 1945. Some of the aircraft used by this unit were found abandoned at the Deutsch Brod airport. The aircraft sporting the camouflage typical for the WNF plant production carried the ROA aircraft marking on the vertical tail surface in the form of St. Andrew’s Cross.