Oblt. Dinger,Staffelkapitan of 4./JG53,in the cockpit of his G-4 trop,photographed at La Marsa in Tunisia in late February 1943.Note the unusual telescopic sight in the wind screen next to the reflector sight.A very uncommon piece of equipment in a G-series aircraft.Considering the way it is mounted,it may very well have been a result of pure improvisation by II./JG 53

Telescopic sight

Bore sighting the weapons of "White 2" a G-2 trop of 4./JG53 The aircraft was probably photographed at Comiso,Sicily in the autumn of 1942.

Bore sighting

Luftwaffe ground staff members de-ice the tailplane of MeBf 109 fighter using scraper and mallet, Russia, 1941-'42.   Keeping the Luftwaffe in the air during a Russian winter was a difficult task by any standards, and one for which its technicians were pretty ill-prepared in this period.  Best regards, JR.