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Yes Andy, these informations are from the books "Die Jagdfliegerverbände der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945" teil 9/II for Bf 109F-2 Wnr.8240 coded "white 0" flown by Karl-Heinz Weber during Summer 1942 and teil 12/II for several Fw 190A-5/6 including a Fw 190A-5 Wnr.410040 flown by Gunther Schack and 30% damaged by flack on 05.10.43. Others Fw 190A-5/6 (or Wnr.410040 repared) flown by these two Aces belonging to the III./JG51 during October 1943.I am only going by what the caption said but it could of course be wrong. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the request either. Somewhere in the back of my mind I recall seeing aircraft with an odd 0 or O with horizontal lines above and below (I think?) but my look through one of my picture books on JG51 got no hits. Are you sure it was that unit?
That's the Greek letter phi or the Cyrillic F. Was this really a marking on a German plane?
All those circles are markings of the Technical officer a/c (Gruppe or Geschwader). They are not unique for a specific unit.
I was answering to post #10 only, saying basically the same as you: these are not the markings in question.You're right but Steph isn't talking about those. He's not talking about those. Read post 9.
That's the Greek letter phi or the Cyrillic F. Was this really a marking on a German plane?
Yep, that's the same a/c I mentioned in my post #14 above.Vague memory but this could be the one I was thinking of (Messerschmitt Bf 109F2 Stab III.JG53 Jurgen Harder named Harro WNr 8085 Russia 1941 01):
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My mind may have embellished the symbol a bit.
No need to apologize - I just added information to what you said before. The moment you mentioned "an o with a vertical I", even before your sketch I imagined the letter phi and I knew I've seen something similar. As it showed it was the same a/c. Maybe it's not the one in question but still an interesting one.Yep, sorry. Didn't see the link.