Skin and cockpit by Julio Junqueira
3dz edition by Enrique 'Manduca' Garca
Loadout modifications by Paulo Morais

Me 109 E-4 (W.Nr.1480) Code: 
Flown by Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, Gruppen Adjutant of II./JG 3, County of Kent, England on September 5 1940.

Franz Werra was shot down during The Battle of Britain. He become POW in Canada but managed to escape.
Returning to Germany he was posted at 1941 to JG 53 as Kommandeur. 
In 25.10.1941 as Hauptmann, Franz von Werra was killed in a flight accident.
He achieved 21 victories.

"Swiss-born and German- raised Franz von Werra 1914 lived a very exciting life in his twenty-seven years.  
A Luftwaffe pilot of a Messerschmitt 109 during the Battle of Britain in the early years of World War II, 
a prisoner-of-war who achieved legendary status, and the subject of a book and a movie several years after his death, 
the pivotal event in his life began in Smiths Falls Ontario Canada at 5:30am on Friday, January 24 1941.    
Oberleutenant Franz von Werra was shot down over England's County of Kent on September 5 1940.  
Following interrogation in Kensington Palace Gardens in London he was shipped north to a prison camp near Grizedale Hall in the Lake District, 
which at the time was the only camp in Britain for captured officers.  
Grizedale Hall was also known as "U-Boat Hotel", due to the large number of prisoners from that branch of the 
service. A former stately home, it lay in isolated countryside between Windemere and Coniston Water.  
It was the site of von Werra's his first escape attempt.  
On an escorted exercise march on October 7 with several other prisoners, he dove over a low stone wall.  
He remained at large until he was spotted by a shepherd on October 12 and was recaptured.  
Following a punishment of solitary confinement, von Werra was shipped to another camp, Swanwick, near Nottingham. 
On December 20 1940, he made his second escape.  He and four others crawled through a shallow tunnel. 
None of the Germans got completely away, but von Werra came very close.  
Using his natural charm and command of English, and posing as a Dutch pilot whose plane had crash landed, 
he walked into the RAF base at Hucknall.  At his first opportunity he climbed into the cockpit of a parked Hurricane fighter plane which he planned to steal and fly to France.  
He was apprehended as he sat in the plane, trying to start the engine. 
In January 1941 von Werra was shipped to Canada for internment in a prisoner-of -war camp on the north shore of Lake Superior.  
He was one of 33,800 German prisoners sent to Canada during World War II.  
The ship docked at Halifax, "an unnamed East Coat port", in the news reports of the day.  
On Wednesday January 22 a train full of German prisoners left the Nova Scotia port for a lengthy trip to Neys, Ontario. 
The journey took the train across through New Brunswick, Quebec City, Montreal, on to Smiths Falls.  
For von Werra and another prisoner, Otto Hollman, this was their last stop.  
They both jumped from a window of the train into a snow bank as it moved slowly through the railway yards in the bitter cold of the pre-dawn.   
Hollman was quickly apprehended in the same yards by Lance Corporal Lyle Thompson and CPR Constable Ernest Potter.  
Hollman was taken to the local jail where he entertained Police Chief John Lees and Constable Reg Wride, before being turned over to the military. 
Franz von Werra escaped detection and made his way to Johnstown on the St. Lawrence River, even though a search was soon mounted.  
"Rural telephone operators cooperated by spreading alarm among farmers advising all to be on the lookout for suspicious characters.
"Following a harrowing experience and with the help of a stolen rowboat, he made his way across the partially frozen river to Ogdensburg New York, on neutral American soil.  
He was charged with illegal entry into the United States, but soon got to New York City. 
Over the next several weeks von Werra was at the centre of a diplomatic tug-of-war, with the Canadian authorities trying to get him returned to Canada.  
By all accounts von Werra enjoyed his time in the limelight tremendously.  
After some time in the United States, funded by German money he made his way into Mexico, on to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, and, by mid-April, to Rio de Janeiro.  
He flew back to Germany from Brazil.  
On October 25 1941 von Werra's plane crashed off the coast of Holland while on a routine Luftwaffe mission.  
Neither von Werra's aircraft nor his body were ever found.  
Franz von Werra was the only prisoner-of-war captured in Great Britain during World War II who escaped back to Germany".  

                                                                       Kendal Burt & James Leasor's "The One That Got Away" 

The 3dz model edition by Enrique 'Manduca' Garca, 
place a Radio antenna and Reshaped the nose and fuselage. Thanks Capitn and Paulo! 

To use this skin, copy the 3DZ files and TPC-files into your EAW-directory.

For comments and questions,feel free to mail me !
Mail: julioj@gold.com.br



Julio Junqueira
May, 2001
 
Sources:

Books:

Barbas, B. Planes of Luftwaffe Fighter Aces Vol. 1 & 2
Schiffer Publishing LTD.

Beaman, J. & Campbell, J. Messerschmitt Bf 109 in action Part 1
Squadron/Signal Publications.

Messerschmitt Bf 109B-E Special issue wide colour No.375
Model Art Co. Ltda. Iidabashi-Banrai Bldg. 6F 3-11, 3Chome, Iidabashi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 102 Japan.

Sundin, C. & Bergstrm, C. Luftwaffe Fighter Aircraft In Profile
Schiffer Publishing LTD.

Tullis, T. Colortech#1-A Quick Reference Guide to the Colors & Markings of Focke Wulf 190 A/F/G Part 1
Cutting Edge Modelworks. 

Weal, J. Bf 109D/E Aces 1939-41
Osprey Publications.

Magasines:

Avions , 
dite par Sarl LELA Presse.

Replic , 
Publication de D.T.U Sarl.

Others:

Aeromaster Decals
