Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 19 870 "Rote 6", 11./JG 27, Athens-Kalamaki, before 13 August 1943. Source: Bundesarchiv Bild 101l-526-2306-16.

This plane crashed in the sea owing to engine trouble off Korfu on 13 August 1943 with Fw. Hans Schütz at the controls; he is listed as MIA. With my thanks to Byron Tesapsides, Luftwaffe Filegerhorste Group, FB, 27 October 2019, for the information.

 

 

Published in Prien, Rodeike and Stemmer, Messerschmitt Bf 109 im Einsatz bei der III. und IV./Jagdgeschwader 27, 1997, p.394.

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