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WWII German Aircraft Photographs - Fighters

Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53) 'Pik As' Page 3

I.1./JG 53

Me109E-1 I.1./JG 53
White 15
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Me109E-1 I.1./JG 53 White 15 Flown By Gefreiter Josef Broker with Goering Red Nose Penalty Stripe & Rear Engine Cowling Opened For Rearming Nose MG17 Guns: Later, Crash Landed & (WIA & POW) At Tatton House Farm, Buckland Ripers, Dorset, UK August 25, 1940
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Me109E-1 I.1./JG 53
White 6
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Me109E-3 I.1./JG 53 White 6 Flown By Oberfeldwebel Alfred Muller with 2 Victories On Tail From 'Sitzkrieg' Patrols of French-German Border At Griesheim, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany May, 1940
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Me109E-1 I.1./JG 53
White 5
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Me109E-4 I.1./JG 53 White 5 JG 53 Geschwader Black Spade (Pik-As) Emblem At Etaples, France
September, 1940
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Me109F-4 I.1./JG 53
White 7
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Me109F-4 I.1./JG 53 White 7 JG 53 Geschwader Black Spade 'Pik As' Emblem with Umbrella Shading Hot Sun Out of Cockpit While Pilots Play Cards In Shade Of Left Wing Waiting For Malta Mission At Sicily, Italy 1942
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Me109G-6 I.1./JG 53
White I (NA+TH) WNr.160087
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Me109G-6 I.1./JG 53 White I (NA+TH) WNr.160087 Parked In Forest At Braunshardt, Germany Summer 1945
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Me109G-14 I.1./JG 53
White 5 WNr.782192
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Me109G-14 I.1./JG 53 White 5 WNr.782192 Modified From Me109G-6 with a White 5 Overpainting a 7 with Other Surrendered FW190A-8s At Bad Aibling, Germany May 5, 1945
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I.2./JG 53

Me109E-4 I.2./JG 53
Red 2
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Me109E-4 I.2./JG 53 Red 2 Refueling France 1940
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Me109F-4/Z I.2./JG 53
Black 11
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Me109F-4/Z I.2./JG 53 Black 11 Mechanics Servicing Aircraft At Airfield In Sicily, Italy Early 1942
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I.3./JG 53

Me109G-14 I.3./JG 53
Yellow 5
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Me109G-14 I.3./JG 53 Yellow 5 with JG 53 Black Defense of the Reich Fuselage Band At Henschel Aero Werke Factory At Attenbaun Near Kassel, Germany May, 1945
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II.4./JG 53

Me109E-1 II.4./JG 53
White(1+-)
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Me109E-1 II.4./JG 53 White(1+-) JG 53 'Pik As' & Kroeck's Personal White Top Hat Emblems Flown By 4th-Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Hubert Kroeck At Sandhofen, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany November, 1939
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Me109E-3 II.4./JG 53
White(5+-) WNr.1244
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Me109E-3 II.4./JG 53 White(5+-) WNr.1244 JG 53 Geschwader Black Spade (Pik-As) Emblem Flown By Unteroffizier Stefan Litjens
France 1940
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Me109G-2/Trop II.4./JG 53
White(2+-)
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Me109G-2/Trop II.4./JG 53 White(2+-) Gun Firing Test At Comiso, Sicily, Italy Fall 1942
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Me109G-4/R6/Trop II.4./JG 53
White(.+-)
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Me109G-4/R6/Trop II.4./JG 53 White(.+-) JG 53 Geschwader Black Spade (Pik-As) Emblem with R6 MG151 20mm Cannon Wing Pods Starting to Taxi From Olive Trees At Comiso, Sicily, Italy Early 1943
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Me109G-6 II.4./JG 53
White(.+-)
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Me109G-6 II.4./JG 53 White(.+-) Transferred to Regia Aeronautica Mechanic Starting to Crank Inertial Engine Starter of Previous II-Gruppe Aircraft with Italian Officer By Wing Watching Mechanic At Comiso, Sicily, Italy May, 1943
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Me109G-6 II.4./JG 53
White(3+-) with II.6./JG 53
Yellow(14+-) & Yellow(5+-)
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Me109G-6 II.4./JG 53 White(3+-) with Me109G-6 II.6./JG 53 Yellow(14+-) & Yellow(5+-) Southern Italy 1943
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II.5./JG 53

Me109G-2/Trop II.5./JG 53
Black(1+-)
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Me109G-2/Trop II.5./JG 53 Black(1+-) Flown By ex-5th-Staffelkapitan, But Is Now II-Gruppe Commander Hauptmann Kurt Brandle with Pilots & Ground Crew In Front of Aircraft Packing Up & Checking Equipment to Load On Ju52 to Leave For Tunisia At Comiso, Sicily, Italy October, 1942
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Me109G-2/R3/Trop Black(2+-)
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Me109G-2/R3/Trop II.5./JG 53 Black(2+-) Flown By Oberfeldwebel Herbert Rollwage One of Alert Rotte with Mechanics Resting On Wings Ready to Crank Inertia Starter At La Marsa, Tunisia 1942
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