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effective
on the ground
measure of low
visibility in the air, especially
concealment
with a
Hauptm. Wilcke,
many
of
outlines.
was applied to
fuselage
decking, leaving an irregular,
added to break up
the
uniformity of the flat RLM 02,
which carried a green tone that
most
backgrounds.
Werner Molders,
With the number of
photo-
at the end of
May
Messerschmitt photos of
1940; and yet, among the
one of
the
classic
Kommanduer machine of
advance through
it
as
Photo 1. (Adelmann)
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position.
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over-painted in grey to
reduce visibility. This
was often seen on airqaft
of the first
Gruppe.
cockpit
after
of W.Nr 1588
his 100th
Photo 2. (Grote)
through the
French
campaign and most of the
Battle of Britain, in 3./JG
2, He had served in J.88
in Spain where his
of 3. Staffel - a dense
mottle of RLM 7l
white edges of
the
fuselage crosses partially
was
yellow, the
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national
colours of Sweden. The
emblem introduced by
General A.D Vennig
Strumpell rn 1939, whose
wife was Swedish. In
October 1940 this badge
had been obliterated by
the yellow [D paint
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concealment
at
higher
altitude where combat
was
anticipated as
the
dreadful winter weather
of early 1940 began to
improve. The normal
2 "Richthofen" until
taken prisoner at Kommodore marking
Shoreham in August was in this case
1940. It shows the supplemented by a small
personal mount of Oberst numeral 1 above the
Gerd von Massow. forward bar. On the
spinner could
appeared only
have
after late
August. Furthermore
forbidden
by
Goeing,
towards a pre-Battle of
Britain date, particularly
in the case of
Kommodore
machine.
The dark coloured rudder
unusual.
Photo 4.
Kommodore of the
Geshwader until March
1940, at
Rebstock
Frankfurt-
in
January,
watched enviously as
their comrades of JG 53
at Wiesbaden were
having most of the action
over the French
border.
Noteworthy are
the
the
fuselage cross remains in
small size, but in the
newer style with wide
white borders. Crosses
on the wings were of the
very iarge type ordered
after the Polish campaign
had revealed the poor
Balkenkreuze:
level
of
aircraft
recognition in
the
Wehrmacht. All upper
surfaces were in the then
standard pattern using
RLM 7l/02 colours, the
remainder being in
Hellblau RLM 65 which
was found to help
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original print,
numeral had
this
been
Massow
to fly
he
from
time to time, and he was
indeed shot down over
the French lines in May.
avoiding capture
to his
unharmed.
returned
and
post
The
Richthofen shield was
silver and black with a
red "R".
Photo 5.
who ordered that a broad
Altogether
thoughprovoking photograph.
the
cowlings. In November
when the badge was reinstated, it was always
larger than the examples
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