BUILT
Fw 190A-4, Maj. H. von Bonin, CO of JG 54, Pskov,
Soviet Union, Spring 1943
Future ace with 77 kills to his credit, Hubertus von Bonin was born on August 3rd, 1911
in Potsdam. As a fighter pilot, he already saw
combat with the Legion Condor in the Spanish
Civil War. His combat career would continue,
first as a member of 5./JG 26, and later as
CO of I./JG 54. From October 1st, 1944 he
commanded III./JG 52. On November 17th,
1942 he was awarded the Knight‘s Cross after having claimed his 51st kill. He would only
enjoy the honour for a little over a year, as
on December 15th, 1943, by then as the CO
of JG 54 Grunherz, he was shot down flying an
Fw 190A-5 near the town of Gorodok. He was
the victim of Soviet pilots flying the P-39.
JG 54 aircraft were camouflaged in a somewhat atypical scheme, still not fully understood today. In all likelihood, the schemes consisted of RLM 70 in combination with RLM 71
or RLM 02, and possibly even with the use
of captured Soviet paint stocks. The bottom
wingtips, the lower part of the rudder and the
fuselage band, in the case of JG 54 coinciding
with the location of the fuselage Balkenkreuz,
were in yellow, the identifying colour of aircraft serving on the Eastern Front.
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