AA32103 Messerschmitt BF 109e-3 Grunherz 9/jg 54 Corgi 1 72

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$90.48
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Estimated delivery Fri, Jun 21 - Tue, Jul 2
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New
JG54 was founded in Austria in April 1940 and was made up of Austrian volunteers. During the B o B JG54 were based at Guines, Campagne-les-Guines and Hermalinghen, South of Calais and East of Boulogne. Waldemar Wubke flew a distinctive looking Me/Bf 109E-3 (Yellow 11) of the 9th Staffel of JG54 Grunherz. He had a quiet but effective career and by the end of the war had a total of 15 kills attaining the rank of leutnant. It was at the end of the war that he gained a degree of infamy when flying a FW 190D-9 as Staffelkapitan with 1/JV44, providing air cover for the airfields used by Galland's JV44 Me262 squadrons. His nickname was 'Heine' and he was later to become a Hauptmann. Designed to meet a Luftwaffe need for a single-seat fighter/interceptor, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was first flown o.