Thanks a lot for the very detailed and documented post.
Fot what I remember, kits were used to convert previously produced Bf.109E into bombers. This could happen with Bf.109E-3 too.
An example should be the Bf.109E3 at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon. It is referenced in books (I find this one online
https://books.google.it/books?id=rb6...3-B%22&f=false)
as a Bf.109E3-B. I had a book by Editions Atlas by Mister Kit about the Bf.109E, in a collection of monographies with many other WW2 planes. Each booklet focused on a surviving machine, examining it in detail, and that one was on Hendon's Bf.109E. Not at hand now alas, I quote by memory, but it described it as an E3 with a bomb.
The fact that Hendon's plane was converted into a bomber is also confermed by the story of the plane that you can download from the museum's site:
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documen...f109E-4101.pdf
It refers that it was
For the subversion identification it says that
On the day when it has been captured, while on a bombing mission:
True also that the same file says that a 1995 inspection casted doubts on the sub version, no matter the plate on the plane. It could have been an E4, from a quotation in a letter and from the model of the windscreen (but I wonder if it's the original, since extensive parts of the plane have been replaced during several restorations).
But I also find meaningful that, while judging if this very plane is an E3 or an E4, the presence of a bomb rack is not considered a proof for the second. As the option of a Bf.109E3 carrying a bomb is perfectly feasible for the historians working at the R.A.F. Museum.
The page for the plane on the Museum site still refers to it as a Bf.109E3:
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/researc...itt-bf-109e-3/
As for the inclusion in the game, there was already a Bf.109E3 with a bomb in the Wings of War Deluxe Set (arising no protests as far as I know). It helps to have more variated scenarios than just dogfights with the planes included - in the WW1 set we used the Camel for the same purpose (even if the model has no bombs on it). So, even if it's not a typical plane, it has been considered useful enough in game terms to be there.
If you doubts its accuracy, I am sorry for that. Give it one more damage point and use it as a Bf.109E4-B instead.
Thanks again!
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