Messerschmitt Bf 110 List



Stab I. Gruppe Nahaufklärungsgruppe 1Stab I./NAG1 code: Q1+

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Zerstorer showing the F model distinctions NAG1 (Q1VB) Russia 1943 01

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Zerstorer Stab I.NAG1 (Q1VB) Kolinowka Russia 1943 01

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Zerstorer Stab I.NAG1 (Q1VB) Kolinowka Russia 1943 0A

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Zerstorer Stab I.NAG1 (Q1VB) Kolinowka Russia 1943 0B

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Zerstorer Stab I.NAG1 (Q1VB) Russia 1943 0B

Messerschmitt Bf 110G2 Zerstorer Stab I.NAG1 (Q1YB) Russia 1943 01

Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstorer NAGr1 Q1 showing small letter unit coding Russia 1943

Messerschmitt Bf 110F Stab I./NAG1 (Q1+VB) Kolinowka Russia 1943

Profile 00: This particular aircraft was a Bf 110F of Stab/StG 77 which was handed over to Stab/Nahaufklärungsgruppe 1 in March 1943. This is where this 110 served in the Southern sector of Russian Front, also other reports claim that aircraft indeed belong to Stab./NAGr 1 but indicate that it is a Bf 110G-3.

Photo's: Bf 110G NAG1 (Q1+VB) Russia 1943 01
This Bf 110G-2 (Q1+VB) catches fire when the ground personnel tries to start the port DB605 engine. The skeletal insignia on the nose is of particular interest but is as yet unidentified.

The following photo, colour profile and information is from Jet & Prop 2/05 in an article entitled 'Uber die Nahaufklärungsgruppen (NAG 1-NAG 16) und deren Verbandkennzeichen (VKZ)' by Rudolf Hecke. The unit emblem includes a profile of the Geschwaderkommodore Gunther Schwartzkopf who was killed on May 14, 1940. The unit Kennzeichen was S2+xA. Stabstaffel StG 77 relocated to Kolinowka in March, 1943 and was reorganized (as stated previously). At least one StG 77 Bf 110 was transferred to Stab./NAG1 with the Kennzeichen Q1+VB and still retaining the Totenhand emblem on the nose. There is a photo of this machine, which has been widely circulated, and for this reason the Totenhand emblem has been mistakenly attributed to Stab. NAG 1.

Messerschmitt Bf 110G2 Stab I./NAG1 (Q1+YB) Russia 1943

Photograph Source: Flugzeug Classic 2010-08

IL-2 Sturmovik 'Cliff's of Dover' - COD game skins
 
Cliffs of Dover game skin by aelius AS Bf 110F Stab I.NAG1 (Q1+VB) Russia 1943

 In the Photo Archive to Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933-1945, Kenneth Merrick includes a large captioned photograph of Q1+VB, which he identifies as a F-2 sub-variant, although the plane usually is described as a G-2. The two sub-variants essentially were the same except for the more powerful (but problematic) DB 605B engine of the G-2, which required the addition of an air inlet above the exhaust pipes that seems to be visible in the photograph. The F-2 was fitted with hard points beneath the wings but so was the G-2. Merrick does observe that the undersides of the wing tips were yellow, and in the photograph one can just discern the coloring. But he goes on to say that the spinner tips were yellow as well, indicating that the plane belonged to the Stab of III.Gruppe. Given how much darker the tips appear to be when compared to the yellow band at the rear of the fuselage, they more likely were green, the color of I.Gruppe Stab an attribution seemingly confirmed by the white "V" and Staffel letter 'B'. NAGr.1 was a Nahaufklärungsgruppen (reconnaissance unit) and one wonders, looking at the photograph, whether the apparent absence of gun ports for the two 20mm canons signifies that the plane was fitted instead with a camera, in which case the sub-variant would be a F-3 or G-3. All of this, of course, is completely beside the point, given that the plane being skinned is a C-4! I've reskinned Q1+VB with the underwing tips in yellow, moved in the Balkenkreuze, and, with yellow now displayed on the undercarriage, closed the tail band around the fuselage. The RLM 74/75 mottling over RLM 76 also has been darkened. The revised color scheme is available here or here. I've just discovered "Piece of Cake," by the way, a six-part miniseries produced by London Weekend Television in 1988. Our British cousins likely have known about the program all along but for me it's been a treat to see so many Spitfires in the air.
aelius AS
I've reskinned Q1+VB with the underwing tips now in yellow, moved in the Balkenkreuze, and closed the tail band around the fuselage. The RLM 74/75 mottling over RLM 76 also has been darkened. 2011-11-04
http://airwarfare.com/ or http://www.cliffsofdover.fr/

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