ME-109E - GERMAN LUFTWAFFE

AS FLOWN BY ADOLPH GALLAND

Historical Note:      Me-109E Messerschmitt as flown by Adolph Galland:    In January of 1945 almost 300 Me 109 fighters were lost in an all-out attack on Allied airfields in France, a mission Galland did not support.

The Messerschmitt Me 109 is a German World War II fighter plane designed by Willy Messerschmitt in the early 1930's. The aircraft was originally powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engine. It began as an entry by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in a fighter competition in the early 1930's. Messerschmitt's Me 109 was the Luftwaffe's benchmark fighter throughout World War II. It was the mount of the vast majority of the German aces and scored more kills than new Axis aircrafts. Only few fighters of the period matched the Me 109's longevity. The aircraft entered service and it remained the mainstay of the Luftwaffe fighter arm until the end of the war.

An estimated total production of 35,000 Me 109s were manufactured by the end of World War II, making the Me 109 the aircraft with the biggest number of types during the war. The Messerschmitt 109's were operated by Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia in addition to Germany. Some of those countries built 109's under authorization. Japan and the USSR each purchased 3 Bf 109E's for testing.

Werner Molders and his famous successor, Adolf Galland, were two of its great pilots.

Scale:    1:24
W/S:     16.2       inches
Lgth:     14.4     inches

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