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Fast Company
by Nicolas Trudgian
| For the Allied air forces in the closing months of the war, the Luftwaffe still posed a serious threat. The 'Long Nose‘ Fw190D-9 was perhaps the aircraft most feared. While on patrol over Germany on the 19th March 1945, Mustangs of the 78th Fighter Group based at Duxford, became emroiled in a frenzied dogfight during which they shot down no fewer than 12 Messerschmitts of IV/JG27. However, as the Mustangs turned for home they were engaged by the FW190D-9s of IV/JG26. Four of the Mustangs were shot down, two of them by the German unit‘s commander, Oberleutnant Hans Dortenmann, flying his distinctive yellow-tailed ‚Black 1‘. By the war‘s end Dortenmann was the leading Fw190D9 Ace with a total of 18 victories. |
| Overall size approx: 24¼" x 34¼" | Available in the following editions |
| 370 | Warrior edition | Signed by three Fw190-D Aces (all Knights Cross holders) | $250 |
| 255 | Dora edition | Signed by eighteen Fw190-D Aces (all Knights Cross holders) | $675 |
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| Warrior edition signatures | ||
| Erich Rudorffer | Hugo Broch | Heribert Koller |
| Dora edition signatures | ||
| Erich Rudorffer | Hugo Broch | Hans-Ekkehard Bob |
| Hugo Dahmer | Hajo Herrmann | Walther Loos |
| Hermann Neuhoff | Willi Reschke | Otto Schultz |
| Fritz Seyffardt | Adolf Dickfeld | Heinz Lange |
| Maximilian Mayerl | Günther Rall | Edmund Rossmann |
| Walter Schuck | Günter Seeger | Walter Wolfrum |
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