Just out of one book....the two lower ones both were shipped to Spain and saw active service there. I also have a shot of D-IALY in Spanish markings and the antenna mast still has not been removed. On the rudder shot you can clearly see the antenna attachment point on the tail tip. Never say never to anything in the Luftwaffe because ANYTHING is possible with those guys, and evidence has a habit of surfacing later to refute the "experts" on the subject.
Last edited by Otterkins2; 18th August 2010 at 20:03.
Hi,
Both the photos you posted of D-IALY and D-IOQY are in Germany. These were given later supposedly the codes 6-1 and 6-2 during the SCW. Do you have any photo of them in Spanish service with mast? For sure while at Germany they had in any moment radios but for some obscure reason were devoid of them when sent to Spain. If any were left with radio, was an exception but not the rule.
This is the former 6-19, a Bf109B of those left by germans, in Spanish Airforce circa the 50's and no radio mast yet...
Here is the last known shot of D-IALY supposedly taken upon delivery in Spain.....still in German markings but now painted either silber or lichtgrau overall....and still sporting an antenna mast. I dunno Avia, this is pretty nutty. Why would they deliver with masts and then remove them? Security reasons over the radio system??? Who knows. Germany was only "advising" in the SCW and supposedly not involved in combat...but we know that to be an outright lie for certain. I'll ask some of my friends who are more knowlegable than I about that campain. My real area of interest is from the early invasions until the end of the war. Spain was kind of a Medeterranian training holiday with bullets for Germany, so I haven't studied it a lot. Oh! You are correct. The known Spanish codes given to these A/C were O6-1 and (for D-AILY) O6-2.
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