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Messerschmitt Bf 109s & Other Aircraft of I./EKG(J)

Cover previewThere has been realized an operation within the Luftwaffe since autumn 1944 to increase number of shortage fighter pilots by retraing of bomber pilots. This transformation and pilot training have been described in our titles “Messerschmitt Me 262s of KG & KG(J) units” and “Messerschmitt Bf 109s of KG(J) 6”. This study deals with the I./EKG(J) which should ensure to continuously replenish the personnel strength of KG(J) units and to substitute expected losses and which activities were mostly connected with Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The title extends number of titles with this theme to the trilogy.
As is usual in the “Luftwaffe over Czech Territory – 1945” line the historical description is accompanied by historical documents, tables, b/w and colour photos and description of 38 aircraft from that 28 Messerschmitt Bf 109s, 5 Focke-Wulf Fw 190s and 5 Arado Ar 96Bs.

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FEEDBACK: Mistakes and incorrectnesses of this book.
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If you find any mistake or incorrectness in this publication, please post it here. It can helps us to improve quality of possible reprints. Thanks.
4. 3. 2021, 16:12
Re: FEEDBACK: Mistakes and incorrectnesses of this book.
from: Burkhard Lück-Dieterich   to: JaPo
On page 61 of your new book there's a photograph of "Black 29". It seems that even the whole underside of the engine cowling and maybe even the underside of the fuselage was painted in a dark colour with light spots?

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4. 3. 2021, 23:07
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Re:Re: FEEDBACK: Mistakes and incorrectnesses of this book.
from: Tomáš Poruba   to: Burkhard Lück-Dieterich
Thank you for your note.
I don´t think, the whole underside of cowling was in dark colour thanks a studying of other snaps of Bf 109s of Brinker Eisenwerk in Wunstorf. The dark colour were probably sprayed directly from side, so it was sprayed to "taperignly" on the bottom surface. In all cases some light surface stayed on a bottom side.
The picture of "Black 29" is not fully clear in the part, but the light surface is visible on the oil cooler and directly in front of the oil coller. It is a true, some darker surface is in a forward part of the bottom engine cowling. It could be the side darker colour sprayed more taperingly. But the bottom cowling wasn´t sprayed directly from bottom to fully cover the surface.
Of course, it is our oppinion. A better photograph can show, we are wrong!
6. 2. 2024, 12:32
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Re: FEEDBACK: Mistakes and incorrectnesses of this book.
from: Mato   to: JaPo
Vasu publikaciu som cital uz davnejsie, je paradna, ale nedavno som riesil fotku Fw 190A-7, Modra 17+~, 20./EJG 2, ktoru popisujete, ze bol najdeny na letisku Berlin-Tempelhof. V skutocnosti to bolo letisko Berlin-Gatow. Bolo to fotene pred hangarom c.1. Da sa to lahko overit, napr. cez Google maps, kedze v Gatowe je muzeum a hangare su opravene, ale viac-menej rovnake. Chyba sice uz hangar 2, ale hangar 1 a 3 stale stoja. Tuto chybu som nasiel aj v inych knihach, napr. Luftwaffe Colours Vol.5 sect.2, War in the east. Na kvalitnejsej fotke sa W.Nr. javi ako 170412.
28. 2. 2024, 22:29
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Re:Re: FEEDBACK: Mistakes and incorrectnesses of this book.
from: Tomáš Poruba   to: Mato
Dobrý večer.
Děkujeme za Váš postřeh o letišti Berlín-Gatow. Máte pravdu, "modrá 17" se skutečně nachází na této základně.
Se sériovým číslem ve Vámi uvedené podobě je ale problém. Pokud by bylo opravdu W.Nr. 170412, jednalo by se o Fw 190A-8. "Modrá 17" je ale verze A-7, což je patrné z rozmístění plnících otvorů trupových nádrží a absencí krytu vstupu k radiostanici za zadním plnícím otvorem. Ten byl charakteristický pro verze A-8 a A-9, A-7 jej však ještě neměla. Vše souviselo s umístěním 115l nádrže do trupu za pilotní prostor u provedení A-8, A-9 (D-9, atd.), kvůli kterému se musela radiostanice přemístit a proto se vstup k ní přemístil na pravou stranu trupu.
Pro identifikaci čísla bude nutná lepší fotografie.
TP

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