Strana 46
Bf 110D-2, W.Nr. 3406, 9./ZG 26, Trapani, Sicily, Spring 1941
Bf 110D-0, W.Nr. 3156, Hptm. Werner Restemeyer, Stab/ZG 76, Stavanger-Sola, Norway, May-June 1940
During MTO operations in the summer of
1941, Luftwaffe aircraft received recognition
markings consisting of white fuselage bands
and, in some cases, also a white tail. A rooster
emblem adorned the nose of aircraft serving
with 9. Staffel. Besides that, the III./ZG 26
emblem consisting of a ladybug in a white
square was also carried. As a carryover of
previous service, the nose was in yellow, as was
the yellow horizontal stripe on rudder. Aircraft
of this Gruppe were the first fighters of the
Luftwaffe employed over Africa. They happened
to become the longest serving aircraft in the
MTO theatre of operations, as they were used
up to mid-1943.
The first unit equipped with Bf 110Ds during the
Norwegian campaign was I./ZG 76. The aircraft
carried an older variant of the camouflage with
sharply bordered areas of RLM 70/71 on the
upper surfaces and RLM 65 on the lower ones.
The aircraft shown used an under-fuselage
external tank, after which the aircraft were
nicknamed Dackelbauch (dachshund belly).
On August 15, 1940, the M8+AB, flown by Hptm.
Werner Restemeyer, Uffz. Werner Eichert and
radio specialist Hptm. Hartwich, escorted
He 111 in a raid on Dishforth and Linton-Upon-
Ouse. At 12.30pm it was intercepted and
shot down by Spitfires from No. 72 Squadron.
The Bf 110D M8+AB crashed in flames into the
sea off the coast of Durham, killing the crew.
648161 SC 250 German bombs (Brassin)
648264 SC 50 German WWII bombs (Brassin)
648602 Bf 110C/D radio equipment (Brassin)
648607 Bf 110C/D/E exhaust stacks (Brassin)
EX753 Bf 110D TFace (Mask)
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