This skin is made for June's FSO, "Breaking the Gustav Line - Shingle to Diadem"
"Yellow 13" of 6./Jg 51 was photographed at Casa Zeppera, Sardinia in the summer of 1943. Pilot is unknown. Camouflage pattern is typical of 109G-6's built at the Regensburg Messerschmitt factory. White wingtips and tail band and yellow lower cowl serve as Mediterranean theater markings. The Jg 51 emblem is painted only on the left side of the cowl. The II gruppe ID bar is painted forward of the tactical number on both sides, a placement unique to II/Jg 51.
II/Jg 51 originally deployed to Tunisia from central Russia in November 1942 to help counter the Allied invasion of North Africa. Even after the Axis was pushed off the African continent, II/Jg 51 remained in the Mediterranean theater while the other three gruppen of Jg 51 stayed in Russia. The unit would see action over Sardinia, Sicily, and mainland Italy into 1944, including over the Gustav Line and Anzio beachhead. Later in the year, the squadrons of II/Jg 51 would utilize several bases in the Balkan states, including Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
