"Bazu" Cantacuzino fighter planes profiles, Color profiles of "Bazu" mounts .

That was a bad joke Alex The so called politicians I was refering to are Tatucu's Iliescu's protejes.

This post has been edited by D13-th_Mytzu on January 26, 2005 12:22 pm

You got it right mate it was a poor joke, though lets return to Dans topic and hope you can contribute too with some nice photos of Bazu just in case you have some

Al

And now the most wanted and beautifull Bazu Bf-109 markings for scale modeller fans.
THE BF 109 G4 "WHITE A".

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on January 26, 2005 01:24 pm

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A picture with Bazu near "White A" on moldavian front in mai-june'44.
( picture courtesy Aeromagazin)


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He didn't forget his childhood bike ( his first mount) used to go on the airfield to his "white A'.
( picture courtesy Aeromagazin)

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on January 27, 2005 07:46 am

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And a close up with the fin of "white A" with 44 victories bars.




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One of Bazu squadron mate painting another victory bar to his "white A"
(Picture courtesy Razvan Bujor)


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The letters on fins adopted by 7thFG in 1944 on some Bf-109G's ( one squadron) was probably because of posible confusion in romanian sky with standard numbers used by 9thFG ( now on Tecuci airfield ).
The letters were written on the fins ( with white color) from A to P ( from what i read in archiv doc.) and only Bazu ( because of victories bars) painted the letter "whiteA" on rudder ( instead on fin).

Below a Bf-109G from the 7thFG made a force landing on moldavian front.
The markings are very similar with the one of Bazu "whiteA".
Picture from the french book " Meserschmitt roumains-TMA editor


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And below it's the victories list of Bazu with the 7thFG after he joined again the unit from begin of april to end of june '44. Most of these victories were made with his personal mount "white A". (list compiled by Ion Taralunga)

1 B-24 Liberator -15-04-'44
1 IAK - 28-04-'44
1 Airacobra -03-05-'44
1 IAK - 03-05-'44
1 Airacobra -05-05-'44
1 IAK - 06-05-'44
1 IAK - 11-05-'44
1 IAK - 11-05-'44

At the begin of april '44 many Bf-109 of 7thFG were not allready numbered. This is the case of Bazu plane who found enough time for painting the victories bars before his first battles in home defence ( in '44) from Pipera airfield.

Below in this picture we can see that only 42 victories were painted in april on the fin of his mount ( later"whiteA").
( picture courtesy Aeromagazin)

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on January 27, 2005 08:40 am

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Wow, those are what I have been waiting for. Thank you so much guys, this was the inspiration I needed all along to do a good model of his 109. Interestingly the pictures show that the aircraft carries meticulous camouflage on the sides, anotherwords it does not look like a field-applied cover up of the call sign letters as ususal. This means that perhaps this aircraft was specifiacally made for the Romanians or more likely that more care was taken in paining out the crosses and call signs on the fueselage and the tail.
Great pictures.
Oh, and I will post some pictures of my Ploesti Diorama on the Ploesti thread ( as soon as I figure out how to upload pictures onto the site ).
As far as the translation of the book about "Bazu" I would be the first in line to read it...please, pretty please:-)
Artur

It is also posible that this Bf-109G's to be from the series assembled at IAR Basov. The cammo look different from the standard Luftwaffe.

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This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on January 27, 2005 08:46 am

I just hope that the camouflage colors were the same. What do you think RLM 74,75,76?
The wings look pretty "luftwaffe" but the sides are indeed different from the Luftwaffe haphazard manner of applying irregular patches of RLM 75 over RLM 76.
Artur