This repaint is for the payware FlyingIron Simulations Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6. It depicts Bf 109G-6/AS "Grüne 5" flown by Oblt. Manfred Dieterle, 2./Erg.JG 2, Hagenow, Germany, November - December, 1944.
This airplane belonged to I./EJG 2, the Ergänzungsnachtjagdstaffel (night fighter replacement training unit). Established in March 1944 at Ludwigslust under Staffelkapitän Hptm. Heinrich Spitzer, this unit was augmented to two Staffeln in July 1944 and trained pilots for single-seat night fighters. "Grüne 5", along with two sister ships "Grüne 6" and "Grüne 7", were briefly deployed as night fighters. The unit of this aircraft was the 2./Erg. JG2 These unit was a special 'Mosquito-Jagd Staffel', (Mosquito-Interceptor), mostly based in Hagenow , south of Schwerin. It was a very small 'Staffel' with three Messerschmitt Bf 109G`s (The green 5, green 6 and green 7). The Staffel-Leader and the pilot of the 'green 5', was Oberleutnant Dieterle. After a successful tour of duty with JG 300, Dieterle was transferred to take over as Staffelkapitän 2./EJG 2 on 21 November 1944.
The lower surfaces of all three Bf 109s of the 2./Erg. JG 2 were black. However "Grüne 6" and "Grüne 7" featured 'standard' upper surface colours with some areas of their airframes, such as the yellow lower cowl, in a cross-hatched black over-spray, while "Grüne 5" was sprayed black overall. Note the owl unit emblem on the engine cowl and, unusually for a Luftwaffe fighter, the white propeller tips. The gear legs and the wheel hubs were painted red.
Dieterle had initially requested that his machine "Grüne 5" be stripped of all camouflage paint for an extra turn of speed for Mosquito chasing duties, and a Probeflug - check flight- was flown in the bare metal finish. However the airframe was finally painted a glossy black finish that was highly polished. Two of the three Bf 109s were eventually lost; "Grüne 7" with Ofw. Steinhagen at the controls had to make an emergency landing in the vicinity of Magdeburg.
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This repaint features historical tail markings.
There is no optional replacement file.
Gerardius
Spook48 author
5 months ago