Bf 109F-4 flown by Hans Beisswenger of 6./JG 54 in the summer of 1942. Beisswenger was one of JG 54's young experten during the Soviet campaign, having only joined the unit from flight school in October 1940 and scoring his first victory over Yugoslavia in April 1941. He would go on a tear once combat against the Soviet union began that June. He would score 50 victories in under a year and reach 119 by the end of 1942. Beisswenger reached 150 victories on March 5th 1943. The following day he would claim two more Soviets before going missing in action himself. No proof of his fate was ever established.
Beisswenger's aircraft featured an improvised camouflage scheme with 3 colors in tortoise shell pattern. Most likely shades were the RLM 70 and 71 greens and a brown that may have been RLM 79. The JG 54 Green heart emblem and the II/JG 54 crest of the Austrian "Lion of Aspern" were painted on the fuselage sides. The spinner was painted yellow.
