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Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-13 "Yellow 10"
Major Franz Götz (63 Victories)
German Luftwaffe JG 26 "Schlageter" Flensburg, Germany May 1945.

A 1/48th Scale Diecast model from Carousel 1

Franz Götz was an enlisted man and fighter pilot in the pre-war Luftwaffe. He began the war with III./Jagd Geschwader (Hunting Wing) 53 "Pik-As" (Ace of Spades). He gained his first victory in May 1940 during the invasion of France when he had the rank of Oberfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) and JC 53 was commanded by the Werner Mölders (101 victories). Götz served with JG 53 through their Western Eurooean, Russian, Mediterranean, and Home Defense campaigns. He Received the Ritterkrenz or Knight's Cross and served as Kommandeur of III.JG53 for two years.On the 28th of January 1945, Götz 32nd birthday, he was assigned to replace Josef Priller as Kommodore of JG 26, based at Fürstenau. Missions were freie Jagd (free hunting) against roaming allied fighters or strafing attack on advancing allied columns. Pilots became exhausted, with no hope but to survive and perhaps do their duty. Replacement airplanes were available until the final weeks, but serviceability was low because of parts shortages and sabotage by slave labor in the factories. With training schools closed, hospitals and disbanded units were the only source of replacement pilots. As JG 26 retreated, each new airfield tended to be more primitive. At war's end, Götz's D-13 was surrendrred to the British at Flensbure, in Northern Germanv. The airplane wore a Pik-As emblem from Götz's service with JG 53, his lucky number “10” painted irregularly. and non-parallel black and white Defense of the Reich bands on the rear fuselage sides and lower surface, but not the top. An unusual mottle pattern was applied over the surfaces in two colors of green, probably by JG 26 crew. Undersurfaces have unpainted metal panels resulting from paint shortages at the factories and grauviolett (gray-purple) paint along the lower leading edges to help conceal the airplane on the ground from low flying Allied fighters. This rare Dora-I3 differed from the more common Dora-9 in having a 20mm cannon firing through the propeller hub, replacing the pair of cowling-mounted 12.9mm machine guns, as well as a number of different details, the most obvious being a larger supercharger intake. Gotz's airplane became one of only two Doras known to survive the immediate post-war period, and eventually is was acquired by current-owner Doug Champlin. The was restored recently and is on displayed in the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.

Note the bare zinc panels on the underside of the wing.