Bf 109 reference material

Hi, in Histoire & collections book on the 109 from 1936 - 42 it shows a Me109 9/JG26 B.O.B flown by Gerhardt Schopfel with yellow wing tips a small yellow wedge on tail fin. of interest is the small yellow pennant on the radio mast. Another thing is mentioned in that other books say he was also III/JG26 but this was August 1940 after taking over command from Galland.

I have also looked at the excellent Jagdwaffe series and found a picture of the aircraft he flew this time with the tail planes showing the yellow tips about mid august 1940. I guess whetther you show yellow tail planes or not you can still be correct.

I hope this helps you a little. Cheers Jim

Goofing on the I-net I stumbled across this......

 http://www.adlertag.de/bilder/g-10_schw_2/die_me_109_g10_schwarze_2.htm

Dave

Here's a good book

JG 26, Photographic History of the Luftwaffe's Top Gun by Donalk L. Caldwell published by Motorbooks International copyright 1994. ISBN 0-87938-845-5

On page 26 there is a black and whit photo that show the tail of the aircraft as kill marking are being painted on, the tips of horizontal stabs and rudder appear to be a different color than the camoflage. Also, on page 98 there is a color side view drawing showing the tips of the wings, horizontal stabs and rudder being yellow. The yellow one is forward of the national marking and a yellow vertical bar is aft. It also shows a yellow penant on the radio mast.

Squadron Signal BF-109 In Action Pt 1 (1044) has this same photo on page 40.

Reddog

There is a book titled:

THE ESSENTIAL AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION GUIDE: LUFTWAFFE SQUADRONS 1939-45
by Chris Bishop and Jorge Rosado

It is available from militarybookclub.com

OK?

  Tom T