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Bf 109F-2/b, Oblt. Wilhelm Hachfeld, 2./JG 51, Kiev, the Soviet Union, Summer 1941

During fighting over the plains of the Soviet

Union, the Luftwaffe leadership planned use of

Bf 109F-2s as fighter bombers to attack ground

targets. The entire Jagdgeschwader 51, led by

Werner Mölders, was tasked with support of

Panzergruppe 2 over the central section of the

front from the start of Operation Barbarossa.

CO of III./ZG 2, in who’s service he fell in Tunisia

on December 2, 1942. The aircraft, equipped with

ETC50/VIIId was camouflaged in RLM 74/75/76

and, as an aircraft serving in the Eastern Front,

was sporting yellow wing tips and fuselage band.

Future Knight’s Cross holder Wilhelm Hachfeld,

born on September 20, 1914, in Dessau, was

appointed the CO of 2. Staffel on October 8, 1940.

Bomben Willi, as he was known, led the unit until

August 25, 1941, when he took over the entire

I. Gruppe JG 51 and served in that capacity until

the end of April 1942. In May 1942, he became the

Bf 109F-2, WNr. 9538, Lt. Hans Beißwenger, 6./JG 54, Ostrov, Soviet Union, July 1941

Hans “Beißer” Beißwenger was first assigned to

an anti-aircraft artillery unit after entering the

Wehrmacht in 1937. A year later he started pilot

training program in 1938 and after its successful

completion he became instructor. In the winter of

1940, he was assigned to 6./JG 54, and while serving

with this unit he shot down a Yugoslav Hurricane on

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April 7, 1941. Other victories were achieved against

Soviet pilots and he eventually accumulated 152

kills. On March 6, 1943, his Bf 109G-2 was the victim

of an aerial ramming conducted by Ivan Kholodov

of the 32nd GIAP. Beißwenger died, while Kholodov

bailed out. The “Yellow 4” was camouflaged in the

standard Luftwaffe RLM 74/75/76 scheme, and the

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Bf 109F LööK (Brassin)

Bf 109F wheels (Brassin)

Bf 109F propeller LATE (Brassin)

Bf 109F propeller EARLY (Brassin)

Bf 109F landing flaps (Brassin)

Bf 109F engine & fuselage guns (Brassin)

Bf 109F undercarriage legs BRONZE (Brassin)

Bf 109F stencils (Decal Set)

Bf 109F-2 national insignia (Decal Set)

Bf 109F TFace (Mask)

sides received an additional squiggle pattern of RLM

75 bordered with irregular lines of RLM 74. Some

sources say that the squiggles were in RLM 02 and

the linework in RLM 71. The yellow wingtips and

fuselage bands were the markings of the aircraft

operating on the Eastern Front.

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