Messerschmitt Bf 110D-3
Unit: Sonderkommando Junck (ex-4./ZG76)
Al Rashyd (Baghdad), mid-May 1941

Grey version for Moggy's Iraq campaign or Middle East
theatres in the 110C and 110G slots,adapted from a file
by Col G and DeanH.

cheers
Ade Kelly 'flying tiger'
nov 2005

Info:
 A Staffel-strength unit of Bf.110D-3s was committed to Sonderkommando Junck, the Luftwaffe undercover detachment supporting the revolt against the British in Iraq in 1941. These were machines from 4./ZG76 which had hastily received Iraqi markings upon their arrival in Mosul in mid-May 1941. After only two weeks of combat, the Germans departed for Syria by the end of May having lost no less than a dozen Bf 110s during their involvement in the Arab country. Some of these planes had a RLM79/RLM78 desert camouflage scheme, but others operated in Iraq in their standard continental 'Grauen' scheme, like this one. (Camouflage: RLM74 Graugrun/RLM75 Grauviolett upper surfaces w/ RLM76 Lichtblau undersurfaces).

