Correct Aircraft Service Years and Numbers

[41Sqn_Banks]

The ingame Spitfire I has the DH 2 pitch propeller and the Spitfire IA a has a Rotol propeller with constant speed unit.
Both were in service alongside already in 1939, however those Spitfires with DH propellers were modified to constant speed unit right before the BoB.

[5./JG27.Farber]

http://www.ww2.dk/oob/statistics/gob.htm

This site is very good. Unfortunatley it doesnt show the sub types of the Emil.

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

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sorry for OT. Farber, your PM box is full, pls delete some messages...

[bolox]

Quote:
Hooton in Eagle in Flames gives the percentage losses of 109s by subtype:

July
E1 - 44%
E3 - 30%
E4 - 20%

August
E1 - 40%
E3 - 8%
E4 - 52%

September
E1 - 38%
E3 - 1%
E4 - 61%

October
E1 - 36%
E3 - 2%
E4 - 62%

and some more info from Kurfust,

Quote:
I have some actual numbers. On 31 August 1940, fighter units (excluding JG 77) reported 375 E-1s, 125 E-3s, 339 E-4s and 32 E-7s on strength, indicating that most of the E-3s had been already converted to E-4 standard. JG 77 had around 100-125 aircraft with it, but for the rest of the units, its 75% cannon E-3/4/7, the rest are all MG E-1s. The E-1 and E-3 were produced parallel and in about equal numbers from the end of 1938, but by mid-1940, the production of the E-1 stopped, replaced by the E-4 and then the E-7.

and,

Quote:
In Ulrich Steinhilper's book 'Spitfire on My Tail', he relates quite clearly that they, JG52 didn't get there first cannon armed 109's until mid september (10th iirc, fenrirs got my copy at the moment so can't check), and then only 2, which were hand me downs from another unit.

from this thread
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.ph...,23678.12.html

[fruitbat]

i recognise that post, quoted from myself from here, over at SAS, lol.

The original post by me is in the fm/dm section here somewhere when i was somewhat irked that only the E3 at the time was in game.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Great information Bolox,

The losses table is good however misleading as its on a piece of the puzzle.

So it seems that in the BoB as thor said before its really E1 and E4 with fewer E3 overall. Thats very interesting.