Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Captured German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me109 KT+W?, missing many parts, at Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "October 1943. During the landings at Salerno in Italy I succumbed to an onslaught of malaria, was evacuated to an RAF hospital at Catania in Sicily, recovered and while waiting for air transport back to the squadron [I] snapped this picture of a wrecked ME 109 in its blast bay on the aerodrome."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me210 at RAF Station Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Same as for photo [1999-058.33] with a different German aircraft surrounded by debris and wreckage of other aeroplanes. I think the photo shows the remains of an ME210 nightfighter."
German pilot Major Wilhelm Hegert and crew prepare to take off in a Messerschmitt Me110. Unknown location.
Information on Major Hegert is under MUS9609911.
Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection.
Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson.
This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection.
Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson.
This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
Original negative at 2018-242.21.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson(?), standing on the wing of a captured Messerschmitt ME109 from JG51. RAF Station Kastrup.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, standing in the cockpit of a captured Messerschmitt ME410 D1+AH from 2.(F)/22. RAF Station Kastrup, Denmark.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, sitting on the wing of an overturned ME109.
Handwritten on the reverse "Sorta bent about a bit but still enough room for me to perch. ME109. Rhine. Germany. April 45."
See duplicate print, 2012-405.149, with complimentary details on the reverse
Side view of Messerschmitt ME109e from 1./JG20. with a bow and arrow unit emblem on the engine cowl. Unknown location.
Unit identification taken from the photo published in "[German] Camouflage and Markings 1935 - 1945. Part 1" by Jaroslaw Wrobel. ISBN 83-86208-08-2
Image from the Des White personal collection.
Interior view of the hangar at RNZAF Station Nelson.
Aircraft in view are: Oxford, Harvard, the tail of a Kittyhawk and the Messerschmitt Bf109 without wings hanging from the ceiling at the far end. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
Image from the CJ Sheddan log book.
High view of Messerschmitt Bf109 '465466' "Black 8" from JG 51, in a field with other captured German aircraft. Copenhagen-Kastrup Airfield, Denmark
Group of RNZAF airmen posed around a partly stripped Messerschmitt Bf109, No. 1654. Believed to be in Wellington.
This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.