German Air Force

A “parent aircraft” of the S9+DR

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El Daba, Egypt, West of Alexandria, late 1942/beginning 1943, after the recapture aside the Allied forces: many Axis aircraft wreck encumbering the airfield. In foreground, with an Allied serviceman in the cockpit, a Messerschmitt Bf 109E, aircraft code S9+CS, of the Luftwaffe’s III/ZG1, a “parent aircraft” of the S9+DR of the previous pictures, with the swastikas of the fin already removed by the souvenirs hunters. In background two Ju 88’s fuselages and an Italian bomber S.79 without engines. The large white high wings on the left is very probably that of a Caproni Ca.133, an Italian former colonial bomber converted in transport/ambulance airplane. Victor Sierra