WW II Aircraft Pt 6: BF 109

[Oddball]

Galland flew both the 109 and the 190.

And the 262.

I have this print, with his A.G. on it:

 

[Oddball]

A swiss BF 109G. An unusal story was behind this, in 1942 a BF 110 nightfighter with the very latest and most modern radar accidently landed in switzerland at night. The Germans offered the Swiss an entire squadron of BF 109Gs if it was returned intact and not closely examined.

The Swiss complied, but they also examined the 110 and sent that info to the Brits. Later in the war Swiss pilots would shot down German and American pilots that strayed over Switzerland and refused to land and be interned.

Germans just hated being intercepted by their own dammed planes, whey they strayed into Swiss airspace!

 

[Vaccum John]

The Bf 109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force in World War II, although it began to be partially replaced by the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 from 1941. Originally conceived as an interceptor, it was later developed to fulfill multiple tasks, serving as bomber escort, fighter bomber, day-, night- all-weather fighter, bomber destroyer, ground-attack aircraft, and as reconnaissance aircraft.

 

[sitarro]

This video shows my favorite views of the 109, with a P-51 behind it blowing it's Nazi ass out of the sky.

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