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F6F-5 Hellcat of VF-75
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F6F-5 Hellcat and F8F-1 of ATU-2
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Wonder if this E-4 of Stab II./JG53 could be the W. Nr. 1313.....

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Also got from the No. 315 Squadron book;

Spitfire Mk. II, P7613, PK-Z..
Spitfire Mk. V, AB913, PK-B..
Spitfire Mk. IX, BS513, PK-Z (mentioned this one earlier, nice colour profile in the book)..

Also;

Mustang III, FB113, PK-?, it crashed during training on the 23/01/46 (I was born on that date, 23 years later), any idea when they, No. 315 Squadron, received this Mustang, during the war, was it ever camouflaged, or just natural metal, after the war.....?
 
Just bumping it up.... :lol:

Wonder if this E-4 of Stab II./JG53 could be the W. Nr. 1313.....

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Didn't find exactly which aircraft is identified as W.nr.1313 Jan, don't think it would have been Chevron Triangle as this surely would have been mentioned if the Kommandeur's aircraft had sustained any damage.
 
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Cheers Wayne! Being a bit on the thick side, when it comes to Stab markings, how many different was there?

There were a few different versions and variations depending on time frame and Geschwader...Chevron and triangle or double Chevron in similar but varying shapes were the most common Gruppe Kommandeur markings, then there were Chevrons with circles, vertical and horizontal bars for other Stab personel...
 
ME313 No. 582 Squadron: No key raids. Navigation Training Unit, 12/44. No. 106 Squadron. No. 189 Squadron..

ME613 No. 101 Squadron, A, B, C.-equipped; SR-L2: a) Berlin, 30-31/01/44; b) Berlin, 15-16/02/44; c) Leipzig, 19-20/02/44; d) Stuttgart, 15-16/03/44; e) Nuremburg, 30-31/03/44; f) Mailly-le-Camp, 03-04/05/44. Missing, Wesseling, 21-22/06/44..

ME813 No. 50 Squadron; a) Dodges, 24-25/07/44. Aircraft crashed while landing at Skellingthorpe, 08/08/44..

Avro Lancaster Mk I and III

Fourth production batch of 250 aircraft built by Metropolitan Vickers Ltd., Mosley Road, Manchester, as part of Contract No. 2221 and Works Order No. G. O. 122700 placed in 1942. (All aircraft completed as Mk. I's and seven aircraft converted to Mk. III's in service). ME554-ME596, ME613-ME650, ME663-ME704, ME717-ME-759, ME773-ME814 and ME827-ME868. Deliveries commenced in November 1943 and was completed in January 1944. Average rate of production, approximately 21 aircraft per week.
 
This Hawker Typhoon (posted before) belonging to No. 440 Squadron, MN413, I8-t, which F/S N. L. Gordon force landed due an undercarriage malfunctioning, was later transferred to No. 184 Squadron...

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This is Hawker Tempest EJ713, W2-K, of No. 80 Squadron, about to lift off from Volkel early in October '44. F/L J. M. Weston scored 80 Squadron second Tempest victory, a Bf 109, in this aircraft on 8 December '44....

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(From The Typhoon and Tempest Story by Thomas Shores)
 

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