[78thFG_Doodle]

~Salute!~, All.

My friend 328th-Jake sent me a collection of over 100 photos taken by a Gentlemen that served with the Luftwaffe during WWII in North Africa and Italy. My friend's Grandfather worked in a Kodak Photo Shop in the 1950's and the Gentlemen that took these photos wanted these photos to be published, so his Grandfather saw that these photos seemed to be very interesting and rare so he made two sets: one for the German Photographer and for himself. I have no plans of selling them, I've had a few offers given to me. From taking a look the Bf-109's are of JG27 and JG53, unfortunately we have no idea who took these photos.

Here's four of the photos in the collection, one of them being of Hans Joachim Marseille.



Here they are.......Enjoy!

[Planemad]

WOW hock: Very nice Pics, your very lucky getting these :wink:

They are in very good condition too :wink:

Planemad

[db605-A/S]

Thank You for Sharing!

I am an antique "hunter" These kind of pics are super rare. I like the armorer ones the best!

The one that are found in the US are are usually after Germany's surrender, and are of wrecked Luftwaffe aircraft and other equipment.

Again thanx for sharing!

[Deutschmark]

WOW! them are really something hock:
Thank you so much for showing them to us.

Deutschmark

[Jambo]

The first picture might be the 49th. and 50th. air victory of Ha-Jo. Marseille.

This happens on Feb. 21st. 1942 in the Area - West of Ft. Acroma at 12.10h pm his 49th. air victory and
at 12.18h pm his 50th. air victory north-east of Ft. Acroma.
The opponents had been two P-40...

Thank you very much for sharing!

A good place for all important and valuable pictures from human history might be Wikipedia Commons
Scan them very carefully in a large resolution, so you can even clean them a bit... only if necessary of course!

Jambo :wink:

P.S. Just found a photo taken a second before or after the first one.
Page 99 of "Hans-Joachim Marseille" - Die Biographie written by Franz Kurowski of the Flechsig Verlag
ISBN: 3-88189-589-2

[LeBigTed]

Hi Doodle,

Very nice pics there !!!! You're very lucky, and it is also cool to see you take care of these photographies ;o)

Thanks for sharing here !!!!!

Ted

[shrek1]

Awesome collection! Congrats and manythx for sharing! hock:

Horrido

shrek1

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

They are treasures!

Thanks for sharing those.

[ton414]

Thanks 78thFG_Doodle for sharing with us these wonderful photos.

[Serpiko]

THANKS for sharing these valuable pieces of history. Take care of them! :wink:

[Heinkel-162]

Wow these must be priceless, hope you take very good care of them! :wink:

[Proto]

Thx for upload this very nice Pictures !

[Phas3e]

A fair number of these have been published in the past I recognize quite a few but there are also some which are new to me

thanks for sharing