[Bullet]

I have several 1:18th scale aircraft from 21st century and bbi and was wondering Who flew them and with what unit. Most I have already identified but two are giving me problems...
I have tryed to research on the net but have only had limited success.

BF109-E in Very interesting winter Camo(Black and White with yellow under chin,lower wingtips,and band on fuselage)Pretty sure this is an Eastern front unit...Fuselage markings indicate Unit: Staffel 9 III/JG54
...Also Green heart under canopy and red smiling devil on cowling and on the tail Red star with Oak leaves and the number 43 in the middle. Can anyone tell me the pilots name?

P-47 Razorback Nose art "Donnie Boy" Fuselage I.D. VFT tail # 28659. This picture has the same color scheme...maybe 334th 0r 336th F.S.? Who was the pilot?



If any of you could help Identify these units and Pilots I would greatly appreciate it!!! Thanks.

[butcherbird]

Hi Bullet,
The P-47 is Don Gentiles bird 4th FG, 336th FS.
The 109 I'm not sure about. Gemini Aces did this as an F variant but didn't include pilot info.
The red shield with black cross and three planes denotes 3 Staffel but the Red Devil on the cowling suggests it is 9 Staffel of JG54 .

[Bullet]

Originally Posted by butcherbird

Hi Bullet,
The P-47 is Don Gentiles bird 4th FG, 336th FS.
The 109 I'm not sure about. Gemini Aces did this as an F variant but didn't include pilot info.
The red shield with black cross and three planes denotes 3 Staffel but the Red Devil on the cowling suggests it is 9 Staffel of JG54 .

Thanks Butcherbird, Thats one down! I finally found a sight that has helped me with identifying units for the other four in my collection that where a mystery...Still haven't learned who the pilots where though...
All of these planes seem to be connected to an Ace, someone famous, or some great event but a couple still remain a mystery, like the pilot of that 109.

[butcherbird]

After some research on the web I've been able to come up with
a possible name of the pilot of yellow 5.
A jg54 resource site provides an excel file of Jg54 losses.
It shows that a pilot by the name of Rudolf Damoser was flying a Bf109F
"yellow 5" when he went missing on March 14, 1942.
Copy of the excel file is available at the bottom of this page:
http://www.jg54greenhearts.com/LossList.htm

Another site credits Damoser with 9 victories.
Not exactly an ace by Luftwaffe standards.

[Bullet]

Originally Posted by butcherbird

After some research on the web I've been able to come up with
a possible name of the pilot of yellow 5.
A jg54 resource site provides an excel file of Jg54 losses.
It shows that a pilot by the name of Rudolf Damoser was flying a Bf109F
"yellow 5" when he went missing on March 14, 1942.
Copy of the excel file is available at the bottom of this page:
http://www.jg54greenhearts.com/LossList.htm

Another site credits Damoser with 9 victories.
Not exactly an ace by Luftwaffe standards.

No, Not exactly an ace...but still nice to know this bit of history...
Now only one airplane left...A P-40cu from 8th pursuit group, 33rd pursuit squadron AAC # 8P 23. Still can't find any pilot info on this one...Possible no one pilot assigned to it?

[Tri-motor]

How many planes have you successfully linked pilot information?

[Bullet]

Originally Posted by Tri-motor

How many planes have you successfully linked pilot information?

6 so far...four I knew at time of purchase...Bud Andersons P-51d, Waldemar Wubke's Fw190d9 JV-44 Platzschutzstaffel Red 3, A.S.C. Lumsden's Spitfire IIa F squadron A flight The Borough of Lambeth, Joe Floss's F4U #22 VMF-115 Joes Jokers, Though I still haven't linked this one with the proper carrier...
Couple I needed help with... and now this P-40 is the only one I can't link to a pilot... Will be a thorn in my side til I find out something...

[swoop]

Another site proclaims the pilot as 'Friedrich' Russian Front 1942. Middle emblem depicts the shield + 3 A/C. of III./J.G.54:(Gruppe) The forward emblem the red devil depicts 9./J.G.54:(Staffel) The green heart depicts Jagdgeschwader 54: (Fighter Wing) Consisting of 3 or 4 Staffeln. Early groupings were consistant of 112 A/c.Later Morphed into larger groups of 164 to 276 A/c. Swoop:

[hawkonevoodoo]

Here's what I found, it's not the same paint scheme but everything else fits. I don't know how well the copy of the write up will show, but here goes.

This is what the write-up says as printed in: Aircam/Airwar 6 Luftwaffe Fighter Units Europe 1939 -1941. page 28 by Jerry Scutts
Messerschmitt Bf-109E-4 flown by Leutnant Waldemar (“Hein”) Wubke of 9 Staffel, III Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 54 “Grunherz”, from Guines in the Pas-de-Calais region of France in September 1940. This interesting scheme is typical, in general distribution of colours, of the later stages of the Battle of Britain. The official factory scheme now involved the limiting of the splinter camouflage to the fuselage spine and the wing and tail upper surfaces, the blue 65 being brought up to a hard line level with the cockpit. At unit level a mottled over spray of shades of green and grey was often added along the fuselage sides on the vertical tail surface. In the case of this aircraft, the splinter camouflage is-unusually-in shades 71 and 02.
The ”5” is the individual aircraft code, in the yellow of the third Staffel of the Gruppe, usually trimmed with black on the pale blue background. The yellow emblem aft of the fuselage cross is that of the third Gruppe in the Geschwader. The devil insignia on the nose is that of the Staffel, 9/JG 54. The emblem below the cockpit, on the port side only, is a personal decoration. It features the badge of the German railway service and a legend which roughly translates as “In the aerial service of the State Railways”. This is not, as might appear, a presentation inscription recording fundraising by loyal railway men, but rather a bitter jest on the part of the pilot. It records the frustration of the single-seat fighter pilots at the orders from Goring which kept them on close bomber escort work-“driving trains”-instead of using their full combat potential in free-chase fighter combat.

Another book says the plane in the second picture is from the battle for Leningrad early 1942. It also lists it as a Bf-109F. This book is "Warplanes of the Luftwaffe - Combat Aircraft of Hitler s Luftwaffe 1939-1945". I hope this helps a bit or adds to the confusion.

[Bullet]

Originally Posted by hawkonevoodoo

Here's what I found, it's not the same paint scheme but everything else fits. I don't know how well the copy of the write up will show, but here goes.

This is what the write-up says as printed in: Aircam/Airwar 6 Luftwaffe Fighter Units Europe 1939 -1941. page 28 by Jerry Scutts
Messerschmitt Bf-109E-4 flown by Leutnant Waldemar (“Hein”) Wubke of 9 Staffel, III Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 54 “Grunherz”, from Guines in the Pas-de-Calais region of France in September 1940. This interesting scheme is typical, in general distribution of colours, of the later stages of the Battle of Britain. The official factory scheme now involved the limiting of the splinter camouflage to the fuselage spine and the wing and tail upper surfaces, the blue 65 being brought up to a hard line level with the cockpit. At unit level a mottled over spray of shades of green and grey was often added along the fuselage sides on the vertical tail surface. In the case of this aircraft, the splinter camouflage is-unusually-in shades 71 and 02.
The ”5” is the individual aircraft code, in the yellow of the third Staffel of the Gruppe, usually trimmed with black on the pale blue background. The yellow emblem aft of the fuselage cross is that of the third Gruppe in the Geschwader. The devil insignia on the nose is that of the Staffel, 9/JG 54. The emblem below the cockpit, on the port side only, is a personal decoration. It features the badge of the German railway service and a legend which roughly translates as “In the aerial service of the State Railways”. This is not, as might appear, a presentation inscription recording fundraising by loyal railway men, but rather a bitter jest on the part of the pilot. It records the frustration of the single-seat fighter pilots at the orders from Goring which kept them on close bomber escort work-“driving trains”-instead of using their full combat potential in free-chase fighter combat.

Another book says the plane in the second picture is from the battle for Leningrad early 1942. It also lists it as a Bf-109F. This book is "Warplanes of the Luftwaffe - Combat Aircraft of Hitler s Luftwaffe 1939-1945". I hope this helps a bit or adds to the confusion.

The Fw190D9 I have definitely belonged to Waldemar...Has his "In service of the State Railway" moto under cockpit. The Bf109 Does not, which leads me to believe this wasn't Waldemar's plane as he always put his moto under cockpit. It would have been a pleasent coincidence if this A/C where Wubkes...two 1:18th scale flown by the same pilot...
I think you're reference to the battle of Leningrad (as far as the Eastern front) is probably correct. The red star with oak leaves and the number 43 in the center would indicate some type of Decoration from the Eastern front, 1943. Since Wubke never flew on the Eastern front this pretty much rules him out also...I'm trying to figure out where Rudolf Damoser was stationed during 1943 and if he received any decorations...wish me luck on this one, might be wishful thinking that records still exist!
Can anyone give me a first name for 'Friedrich' mentioned a couple of posts ago?