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Axis armies in Tunisia. After the capitulation of
the Germans and Italians in Africa, the Luftwaffe
faced the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy, on the
Eastern Front it waged intense air battles with
a strengthening Soviet Air Force, supplement-
ed in the spring of 1943 by new types of Soviet
aircraft. Deliveries of British and American
equipment were significant, especially the P-39
Airacobra and the P-40 Warhawk, supplied under
the Lend Lease Act. In all these battles, the Bf 109
G-2 and G-4 were the most important equipment
of the Luftwaffe fighter units. Both the Bf 109 G-2
and G-4’s ability to carry MG 151/20 cannon pods
under the wings was greatly appreciated in com-
bat against the increasingly dangerous, heavily
armored Soviet Il-2.
The importance of the Bf 109 G-4 with under-
wing gun pods, called Kannonenboot, increased
in North Africa and the Mediterranean, where the
number and intensity of Allied heavy four-en-
gine bomber operations increased. In this area
A photo reconnaissance Bf 109 G-2/R4 “Black 14” WNr. 10605 of the 2.(H)/Aufkl.Gr.14, shot down in Allied territory in Tunisia on
February 20, 1943 with Oblt. Gerhard Wernicke at the controls. He managed to evade capture and after three days and a journey of
120 km got back to his own unit. [SDASM]
Wernicke’s “Black 14” became a favourite hack of the 86th Fighter Squadron (79th Fighter Group). Unit´s personnel took great care
in improving its camouflage and markings. The name Irmgard belonged to the girlfriend of Wernicke’s mechanic, who was Uffz.
Bopp. [J. Ethell Collection]
of operations in the spring and summer of 1943,
the Luftwaffe’s Bf 109 G-4 was the main fight-
er type, whose lighter armament of one 20 mm
cannon and two machine guns was less effec-
tive against heavy bombers. The reinforcement
with two additional cannons was therefore
most welcome. The number of the better-armed
Fw 190A, whose armament of four 20 mm cannon
and two 13 mm machine guns was much more
effective against heavy bombers, was relatively
low in the Mediterranean. In addition, they mostly
served with combat units and were not deployed
in battles against bombers. A significant part
of the operational activity of the Bf 109G in the
Mediterranean was in the employment of tac-
tics against the Allied bomber formations, the
organization of air traffic and the guidance of
fighter elements to their targets. The Luftwaffe
had well-developed operational tactics against
smaller units of twin-engined bombers and
their fighter escorts from fighting in Africa and
on other fronts. The deployment of large groups
of heavy four-engined bombers accompanied
by strong fighter escorts, however, moved the
air war to a higher level, and the command of
German fighters in the Mediterranean, Jagdflieg-
erführer Sizilien, under the command of Lieu-
tenant General Adolf Galland from June 1943, had
great problems coping with the new situation in
the air. However, the other side also had prob-
lems with the tactics and coordination of its forc-
es, for which the deployment of large formations
also presented a completely new challenge. The
fierce battles over the Mediterranean and Italy in
the summer of 1943 were thus accompanied by
mistakes on both sides, from which both grad-
ually learned, and they later benefited from the
bloody experience when organizing air opera-
tions in all areas, especially on the Western Front.
On the Western Front, the ratio of the two main
Luftwaffe single-engine fighters was reversed,
units flying the heavier Fw 190A being more
prevalent. However, it was here that the Luft-
waffe faced the greatest disaster. In the autumn
of 1942, the first units of the newly formed 8th
Air Force of the USAAF arrived in Great Britain,
and increasingly took part in the bombing offen-
sive against targets in occupied Western Europe.
The first daylight raid on Germany was carried
out by the 8th Air Army on February 27th, 1943,
and from the spring of 1943 it increased its at-
tacks in direct proportion to its increasing
strength. Escalating British and American air
raids on Germany were causing painful losses
with an increasing impact on the German war
effort. Not only was the increasing intensity of
bombing attacks lethal for Luftwaffe fighter
units, but the growing strength of the Allied fight-
er elements had to be contended with as well.
The arrival of new types of American fighter air-
craft and the associated change in Allied fighter
tactics was deadly to German fighters.
In August 1943, the Messeschmitt plants in Re-
gensburg and WNF in Vienna’s New Town were
hit, and although in 1943 the Luftwaffe was still
able to counter the American daytime raids rel-
atively successfully, and even halting them for
a time at the end of that year, the situation gradu-
ally became critical and by the following year the
Luftwaffe had lost the air battle over Germany.
The Bf 109 G-2 and G-4 were direct partici-
pants in these historical events. The Bf 109 G-2
and G-4 were also used by the Finnish, Romanian,
Italian, Croatian, Slovak and Hungarian air forces.
In Hungary, the Bf 109 G-2 and G-4 were li-
cense-produced as the Bf 109Ga-2 and Ga-4.
Romanian sources state that additional Bf 109
G-4s were built in Romania, but they were prob-
ably assembled from aircraft delivered by Ger-
many.
In February 1943, production began of the
Bf 109 G-6, which was produced in many blocks
until the end of 1944. The exact number of G-6s
produced is unknown, but it is believed to have
reached 13,000 aircraft. However, the production
of the Bf 109 G-4 ran parallel to the production
of the Bf 109 G-6 until June 1943, and also in
Luftwaffe fighter units, both types served con-
currently from the spring and into the summer
of that year. As late as July, during the Battle of
Kursk, which marked the definitive turning point
in the course of World War II, Bf 109 G-4s still
equipped half of the Luftwaffe fighter units flying
G version aircraft.
Bf 109 G-12
Not even later did the Bf 109 G-2 and G-4 completely lose their signif-
icance, as they served until the end of the war in training units. Some of
them were converted into two-seat Bf 109 G-12s by Blohm und Voss in Ham-
burg. These were also later converted from the Bf 109 G-6 and Bf 109 G-10.
A total of 280 Bf 109 G-12s were likely built, but how many were converted
from G-2s and G-4s is unknown. Some of the surviving airframes of the Bf
109 G-2 and G-4 were also used to convert to the higher derivatives of the
Bf 109G, and after being withdrawn from service with front-line Luftwaffe
units, Bf 109 G-4s continued to be supplied to Germany’s allies in 1944.
Bf 109 G-12
(conversion from Bf 109 G-4)
Bf 109 G-12
(conversion from Bf 109 G-4)
Bf 109 G-12
(conversion from Bf 109 G-4)
Bf 109 G-12
(conversion from Bf 109 G-4)
Bf 109 G-12
(conversion
from Bf 109 G-4)
Bf 109 G-12 (conversion
from Bf 109 G-4)
During their service with Luftwaffe training units, the majority of
Bf 109 G-12s, which had been converted from Bf 109 G-4, received
upgraded, higher-quality wheels standardized for Bf 109 G-6.
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