{"id":497,"date":"2015-02-09T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T10:26:04","slug":"everyone-loves-bf-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves Bf-109 :))"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W.Nr. 18807, Flown by Ofw. Alfred Surau, 9.\/JG 3, Bad W\u00f6rishofen, September, 1943<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This aircraft was flown by Ofw. Alfred Surau, a fighter ace credited with 45 victories (some sources claim 46). Surau\u00b4s first victim hit the ground in Russia on February 28, 1943. He served on the Eastern Front till the end of August, 1943. The first kills in the West were two B-17s in September, 1943.<br \/>\nTwo more were added to Surau\u00b4s tally on October 1. His last combat sortie came on October 14, 1943. Surau took part in an aerial battle with US bombers over Schweinfurt, but B-17 gunners hit his G-6. Surau was seriously wounded and died the same day in a Wertheim hospital. The excess paint on the gun cowling identified 9.\/JG 3 aircraft, and the JG 3 badge is painted on the engine cowling. The RLM 02 splotches were sprayed on fuselage sides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?page_id=483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120136-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1120136\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120136-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120136.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120136-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W.Nr. 18807, Flown by Ofw. Alfred Surau, 9.\/JG 3, Bad W\u00f6rishofen, September, 1943 This aircraft was flown by Ofw. Alfred Surau, a fighter ace credited with 45 victories (some sources claim 46). Surau\u00b4s first victim hit the ground in Russia on February 28, 1943. He served on the Eastern Front till the end of August, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyone loves Bf-109 :))<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}