Bf 109 Engine Change Image

Chris,

That’s brilliant, thanks.

Hi Ian,

This image is of a Bf-109E-7 of III./JG27 photographed at Svretv-Vrax airstrip on the Kresna Pass in Bulgaria 1941 just prior to the Balkans Campaign. III./JG 27 carried their individual aircraft number on the nose of the aircraft which is why none is carried on the fuselage.

All the best!

Chris Simmonds

Clint,

Thanks, that’s much appreciated.

Bf109E-4 or possibly a Bf109E-7. 🙂

I’m not great on Bf 109 marks. Am I right in thinking this is a 109E? If so, is it possible to identify the sub mark?

The photographer was Hugo Jaeger. He worked for Life magazine before America’s entry into the war. He was responsible for some extraordinary colour images of prewar Nazi Germany and the war in Poland. Many of his pictures survived because he apparently buried the negatives in a jam jar and reprinted them in the 70s. Much of his work is scattered uncredited across the web.

Not sure, I linked the photo here via the original Photobucket account.
Which is of course is not mine.

Clicking on the picture as if to save it the title Bulgaria 1941 comes up. So perhaps not North Africa. Puzzling.

Thanks Duggy,that’s brilliant and just what I was looking for. Cheers.

Regards Duggy