Appendix One: Markings and Camouflage of NSG 9 (Page 196)
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Fw 190 F-8/R1, E8+EH of 1./NSG 9 was found at Vicenza aerodrome after the Luftwaffe had retreated. A photograph of this aircraft appears on the website of the US 202nd Military Police Company and was apparently taken by Father William Patterson.
The machine is by a wooden building belonging to the Vicenza Pilot School (an affiliate of RUNA, the Royal National Aeronautical Union, according to the painted sign) and appears to be in a different part of the field from the Ju 87 and Fw 190 whose photographs appear in "Ghost Bombers" (page 170).
In 2009 a new book appeared in Japan, "LO+ST" by Hideki Noro, which included no fewer than three new photos of E8+EH, showing its Werk Nummer to be 584562. The aircraft had four underwing bomb racks and a black/white spiral on its spinner. For good measure, the book also has a new shot of Fw 190 F-9 E8+MH, WNr. 440323 at Vicenza.
Thanks to: Ferdinando D'Amico for letting me know about the first of these photos.
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Appendix Three: Aircraft lost or damaged (Page 199)
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Further research has confirmed the identity of the aircraft damaged in an accident at Villafranca on 25 December 1944:
25.12.44, 23.55 hrs.
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Villafranca
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Deutsch &
Nawroth
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Ju 87 D-5
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3-1193, E8+KL
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The following loss is mentioned in the text (Page 153) but was inadvertently omitted from Appendix 3.
23.02.45
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Villafranca
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Fw 190 F-8
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584549
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Thanks to: Norbert Schuchbauer for pointing out this error.
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Additional research has provided details of the Fw 190 reported in the text as having crashed at Villafranca on 27 February 1945. In fact it was 5% damaged by a technical fault during a night-fighting sortie. Its pilot was unhurt.
27.02.45
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Villafranca
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Fw 190 F-8
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584561, E8+DH
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Note: this was not the same E8+DH that was found at Villafranca after the Allies arrived, its Werk Nummer is different.
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