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Just a follow on from this, and to answer my own query :) The pitot tube post was left light (aluminium?) even though the port wing underside was painted black. The attached photo (source: Camouflage and Markings #2 BoB RAF may to december 1940 by Paul Lucas) shows newly completed Hurricanes...

thanks for the info!

:)thanks very much for that! So much better to see first hand references. I'd really like to see the other photos of it you mention. Is there a link?

Hello all, can anyone post a photo of Balthasar's 'Green One' Emil of III/JG3 ? I have seen lots of colour profiles of this but I'm wondering what the evidence is for them as they sometimes vary. I have seen a photo of the tail with the kill bars but that's all. Any help would be appreciated :)

Thank you Clint and Larry. Excellent research:) Really looking forward to seeing the Eagles over Europe project!

thanks for the info so far lads, there is a photo of a stuka from this unit on this forum here (about half way down) http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aircraft-requests/5-stg2-ju-87-b-2-a-30610.html I cant make out any shield....

Hello All. does anyone have a reference for the markings of this unit for the Battle of Britain please? Has to be 2nd Staffel rather than the third. Was there a shield device (a cross) on the nose? many thanks!

This is not another question about the colour of the nose!(BTW-it was red IMO and represented a pair of red lips 'blowing a rasberry' which fits in well with Gleed's flamboyant character). Has anyone else noticed Ian Gleeds Hurricane P2798 has the Day/night scheme on the underside? A careful...

thanks alot Maximowitz and thanks too Wojtek, nice reference pics!

thank you. How could he be contacted?

Thanks for the info Terry. Do you have an image of the Meyerweissflog aircraft?

from an interview with Bob Doe in 2006: ' I just didn’t have it in me to kill him. I probably should have because he was rescued by an E-boat and came back and killed more of our boys.” The Luftwaffe pilot was German Ace Hauptmann Rolf Pingel. He survived the war. After his death in the...

Could anyone confirm these markings are an acceptable guess for Rolf Pingels Bf109E while he was Staffelkapitan with II/JG53 in August 1940? This is a follow on to a post I made re his encounter with Bob Doe on the aviation section of this forum...

some thing like this..... Pingels A/C is speculative obviously but if anyone has suggestions to make it more accurate, please say:) cheers Simon

Thanks to all for the replies. If Fw. Dinger of 4/JG53 and Gefr. Schulz of 6/JG53 were the two rescued from the sea, I am wondering what happened to Pingel. Can anyone suggest another date for this incident? Its difficult to find another possibility as Doe only claimed 4 109's in August (3...