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Messerschmitt Bf-110E Zerstörer NJG1.3 (G9+BD) 01

Photo 01: A Bf-110E of Stab III./NJG1 equipped with FuG 202 Lichtenstein Be. This aircraft is unusual in that, although of no advantage in the night fighting role, the four ETC 50 underwing bomb racks introduced with the Bf-110E-1 have been retained. Experiments with a light grey camouflage finish had shown that shades of this color proved superior in many respects to the earlier, widely-used overall black. From about the autumn of 1942 the black began to be phased out, although examples could still be seen some months later. This aircraft was coded G9+BD and is thought to have been [mished with 76 undersurfaces and fairly large, widely spaced mottles of 74 on 75 uppersurfaces.