[Gun camera image of Messerschmitt 110]

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Title

[Gun camera image of Messerschmitt 110]

Description

Photographic still of a Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft in flight, taken from an aircraft gun camera, circa 1943-1944. The inscription notes that the image came from fighter ace James C. Stewart's aircraft.

Typed caption glued to photograph: "To: Corona Daily Independent, Corona, Calif. Major James C. Stewart, 24 year old Operation Officer for a Thunderbolt Group in England, only damaged this Messerschmitt 110 on a recent mission over continental Europe but since then he has destroyed a Messerschmitt 210, twin engined fighter, and a Dornier 217, Germany's twin engined bomber."

Part of a disassembled scrapbook containing World War II and post-war materials, circa 1943-1956.

Date

1943-1944 circa

Bibliographic Citation

The James C. Stewart Fighter Ace Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2002-02-13-1098_image_676_01
2002-02-13-1098_image_676_02