Warbird Information Exchange

That 2nd photo seems to be of a highly modified Spitfire. It seems to have Spitfire paint on it anyhow! Can anyone figure out the ID on that one?

Cubs2jets - Many thanks for posting these pics. I already had them on file and I think that your guess of Cincinnati is correct.

bdk - Not a Spitfire but Messerschmitt bf109F bearing RAF serial AE479.

Cheers

Barry

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Johnny's Mother : "Don't be silly Dear - you can't do both!"

Emil not Friedrich - square tips and truncated spinner

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

You are correct.

'E' not 'F'.

An unintentional slip of the keyboard.

Barry

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Little Johnny : "When I grow up I want to be a pilot!"

Johnny's Mother : "Don't be silly Dear - you can't do both!"

This dates the 109 photo:

http://intotheswarm.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... ite-1.html

"This aircraft was eventually shipped to the USA on 7 April 1942 but it crashed during a test flight in November that same year and was finally scrapped at Chanute Field on 26 November 1942."

I'd be really ecstatic if these were actually pictures taken at Lunken during the war, since I've been doing a lot of research into just that topic.

A while back, I came across a newspaper clipping in some papers at our museum about two years ago, and I snapped a picture of it to send to the head of the one-room museum on the second floor of the terminal building at Lunken. Luckily, I happen to have a copy of it accessible at home, so I've attached it to this post. Unfortunately, like the pictures you provided, I don't believe it has as any accompanying information.

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https://images.indianahistory.org/digit ... 21/rec/109



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Looks like W3119 got around! Caption here says it was in Burbank, CA.

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery ... f-burbank/

From the Rudy Arnold collection NASM.








C2j

Me109-E3 I.1.JG76 White1 WrkN1304 (RAF AE479) Captured Strasbourg-Woerth, France November 22, 1939