Me109 vs. KI 61 Tony, Who's the KING? :)

That's the way nost of the 109's were distroyed.
This case is a lucky one...

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C-2, do you know the story behind this particular photo?

Gen. Dénes

If I'm not mistaken,that's an "E" who had too many flying hours and was use as a trainer.

It's certainly an 'Emil', but who used it as trainer?

Gen. Dénes

Like... Army fighter, no? Ok!


Iama

The original photo belongs to cdor. av. Eusebie Hladiuc (as C-2 should have mentioned it), but we don't know to whom the Emil belonged to and who crashed it.

C-2, in the future, when posting images we copy from veterans mention the source either on teh photo directly (preferably) or at least in the post.

I'm sorry!
I forgot.
I always do it.

There are guys (like Mr Hladiuk said) that wrote books with his photos and didn't mentioned his name..
You have been there when he said that we can use his photos when we want...
I have the same OK from a few other pilots,as I promised them that I'll never have any material gain from it,and I'll help promote the ARR and his pilots.

Right but the israely brigade was mainly an infantry unit ... they weren t pilots .... maybe those vets were czech or polish ? Maybe americans ?

Before WW2 jewish peoples use to to bussines, arts or medicine ... just a few of them were in the army - ( usualy they weren well accepted by military caste ).

Within the Romanian Army during the Independence War and WWI there were Jewish soldiers and officers, some even decotrated for their deeds. In the anti-Semitic laws of the late 30s and early 40s, they were considered a distinct category, treated somewhat better. However, during WWII, there were no Jewish officers and soldiers, except in some work battalions. They were taken out of teh army records and only in late 1944 and in 1945 were they reinstated (I have seen several such Royal decrees of reinstatement in the MO).

The Israeli pilots in their war of independence were a mixture of ww2 Jewish American and British voluntirs.
Their first fighter was a Spitfire made from schrap(i belive they made it from 3 abandoned British planes.
Then they got a few Avia 199S(109G) that nobody liked.They were replaced quikly with Spits and Mustangs.

Today I called Mr Hladiuk to ask about the E.
Unfortunatly H didn't get yet his hearing aparatus and he couldn't hear me....

Here is an interesting article (in Romanian only) which gives figures as well as names of Jewish officers and soldiers in the Romanian army before WWII.

Au luptat pentru patrie

In the article mentioned above I found an interesting paragraph about the (intended) participation of the Romanian Jews to the operations in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina at the beginning of WWII.

Do you have any details about this?

And everybody goes off-line...


Iama