Fine Molds Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/R6 of Oberleutnant Gerhard Stamp in 1/72 Scale

Gerhard Stamp was a successful Kampflieger, flying the Junkers Ju 88 with LG 1 in the Mediterranean.  As a bomber pilot he flew over 300 missions.  He was an anti-shipping expert, sinking the destroyer HMS Defender, damaging three British cruisers, and sinking 35,000 tons of merchant shipping.

As the German war situation deteriorated, Luftwaffe emphasis shifted to defending the Reich.  Several bomber pilots were retrained on fighters.  This did not sit well with Stamp.  The symbol painted on the nose of Stamp’s Yellow 17 is the Luftwaffe Bomber Pilot Clasp, emphasizing that he still considered himself a Kampflieger.

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6/R2 of Oberleutnant Gerhard Stamp, III./JG 300, Oldenburg, Germany, September 1943