Vahe Demirjian
Banned
Although it is claimed in the Wikipedia entry for the Heinkel He 177 that no surviving images exist of the Heinkel He 177 V15, which was the prototype for the Heinkel He 177A-6/R2 with a Bristol Bleinheim-style nose, a photo of the first Heinkel He 219 prototype on page 5 of Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel's book Heinkel He 219 Uhu (see Heinkel He-219 Uhu 2010 - JagdWaffe) shows the He 177 V15 in the foreground. Given that He 177 V15 was converted from an He 177A-3 airframe, and crashed in the summer of 1944, and the He 219 first flew in November 1942 (when the first He 177A-3 left the assembly line), this photo was probably taken in 1943.