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Bf 109G-10 Erla, Jagdgruppe 300, Prague-Gbel, Protectorate Böhmen und Mähren, May 8, 1945

This aircraft, originally belonging to 16./JG 300, is an Erla build 150 or 151 series machine with large bulges over the undercarriage wells. This machine was flown from Prague-Gbel airfield on May 8, 1945 by Fw. Josef Unminger, a pilot of Flugzeugüberführungsgeschwader 1. He had to make a belly-landing due to the lack of fuel near the city of Bochov near Karlsbad in Western

Bohemia and the aircraft was destroyed by retreating German soldiers by several shots of Panzerfaust. Unminger was captured

by the Russians but managed to escape from captivity and returned home to Bavaria after long way through Saxony and

Thuringia.

Bf 109G-14/AS, Fw. Eberhard Gzik, 2./JG 300, Borkheide, Germany, October 1944

This Bf 109G-14/AS belonging to I./JG 300 was either a Series 780 machine produced by the Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg,

or a Series 413 or 460, produced by the Erla factory in Leipzig. During the fall of the 1944, the I./JG 300 led by Hptm. Gerhard

Stamp conducted fighter cover for the Fw 190A-8/R2 Sturmbock heavy fighters. The unit suffered serious losses during tough

combats with USAAF fighters in September and October. On October 2, I./JG 300 lost 19 aircraft destroyed and 13 damaged by

Mustangs of the 355th FG which strafed the Borkheide airfield. Fw. Eberhard Gzik was posted to 9./EJG 2 in November 1944 and

flew the Me 262 in Kommando Stamp. He achieved three aerial victories during the war.

Bf 109G-14/AS, Fw. Wolfgang Hundsdörfer, 2./JG 300, Esperstedt, Germany, September 1944

There was the emblem of a dog cartoon with a B-17 in its mouth and the inscription Lumpi on the fuselage side below the cockpit

of this aircraft. Lumpi was the pilot´s, Wolfgang Hunsdörfer's, nickname. On the fuselage, in front of the tail surfaces was a red

stripe, the designation of JG 300 aircraft within the Reichsverteidigung system. In December 1944 was this marking changed to

blue-white-blue stripes.

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INFO Eduard - July 2021