A little help please......

[Army of One]

This was in a book I recently bought and apparently shows a view from an He111 on a mission over England on either 25/26 August 1940.....I'm sure its a He100.....can anyone confirm this and did any actually participate in the BoB...?

[Dizzyfugu]

Could it be that it is just a propaganda shot? Looks surely like a He 100D, and the large emblems suggest that it is one of those spurious PR aircraft. AFAIK, the machines were never used for "real" missions, or just relegated to factory defence missions. I'd say that it is a pic of a real He 100D, but not a "hot duty" image.

[Logan Hartke]

Yes, it's a photograph of a Heinkel He 100 taken from a He 111.  No, it's not on mission over England in 1940.  It's an April 1940 image for a Der Adler article.  Here's a couple more from the same series.





Cheers,

Logan

[PR19_Kit]

They probably had different numbers on each side too.... 

[Army of One]

Logan......cheers for that,mucho appreciated.........I was just quoting from the book....

[Logan Hartke]

By the way, what book is it?

Thanks,

Logan

[Army of One]

Dogfight:The greatest air duels of WW2........editor Tony Holmes......mix up of Osprey Aircraft of the aces and their Duel series....some great artwork n stories in it.......

ISBN 978-1-78200-881-1

[Captain Canada]

The first pic is rather neat....I like the odd angled shots like that.

[rickshaw]

The placement and size of the Balkenkreuz on the upperwing is a giveaway that it isn't a real Luftwaffe aircraft.  They should be smaller and further outboard on the wings.