DL Bf109G-10 DBM Yellow 13 2024-06-12

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DL Bf109G-10 DBM Yellow 13 - DL Bf109G-10 DBM Yellow 13

DL 1% - Bf-109G-10 DB605DBM Gustav (B4 with MW50, 20mm MG151/20) Messerschmitt 1st production block WNr130359, Yellow 13, Pilot OFw Heinrich Bartels, 15./JG 27. Bartels was shot down over Villip, Bad Godesberg, on 23 December 1944 by P-47 Thunderbolts of 56th FG. He had just dispatched one of them, his 99th kill, seconds before his own death. The wreck of this aircraft, named Marga after his wife, was not found until January 1968; Bartels' remains were still in the cockpit. While no...

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