Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Restored To New at FHCAM 2023
This aircraft was flying a few times a year up to 2019. Today she rests in the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett Washington. She is a data plate reconstruction of work nummer 1342 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Emil.
It was delivered to the Luftwaffe around the end of October 1939 – it was issued to Jagdgeschwader 51 and assigned to Feldwebel Eduard Hemmerling of the unit’s 6th Staffel..
Hemmerling fought in France and England in 1940. He had a total of three kills before he was killed in combat. He shot down an RAF 54 Squadron Supermarine Spitfire on July 7, 1940 over Dover and two days later he downed a Bristol Blenheim near Cap Blanc Nez. His last victory came only moments before he perished in his Messerschmitt later that month.
On the 29th of July Hemmerling was escorting a force of 48 Junkers Ju 87 ‘Stuka’ dive-bombers and found himself in a dogfight over Dover. He shot down a British aircraft – his third aerial victory. However, his airplane was also hit in the fight and Hemmerlin
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