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Dornier Do-215B NJG2.2 (R4+DC) Leeuwarden 1942 00

Profile 00: Dornier Do-215B-5 'R4+DC' of Stab II./NJG2, Leeuwarden, Spring 1942. The upper and lower camouflage colors on this machine were divided by an undulating demarcation line which came well down the sides of the fuselage and continued to the nose in the same plane so that much of the fiont fuselage was in the undersurface color. The camouflage was probably a locally applied scheme of 74 and 75 on the uppersurfaces while the undersurfaces were 76. The code letters were in grey 77 but with the individual aircraft letter '0' in Stab green 25 with a white outline. Note that the white areas of the fuselage Balkenkreuz have been toned down and that the swastika on the tail has therefore been shown accordingly.

Dornier Do-215B NJG2.2 (R4+DC) Leeuwarden 1942 01

Photo 01: A late production Do-215B-5 night fighter showing the aerials in the nose for the FuG 202 Lichtenstein Be radar. Also visible under the forward fuselage is a weapons tray which increased the machine's total forward-firing armament to three MG 17s and three MG/FF cannon. This machine was photographed at Leeuwarden in the spring of 1942 and was operated by Stab II./NJG2.