The downed Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 fighter aircraft (“weiß 4”, factory number 7187) from the 53rd Luftwaffe Squadron (4.Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 53 “Pik As” – “Ace of Spades”) under the control of Feldwebel Fritz Dinger in the Sologubovka area of the Leningrad region. Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 was shot down on October 5, 1941 in the Battle of Leningrad, the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union.
Eastern Front of Nazi Germany during World War II in Europe.
Location: Sologubovka, Leningrad Oblast, USSR
Time the photo was taken: 1941