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Originally Posted by Troy Raines
CWatson, truer words have never been spoken Sir, I agree.  the discovery of new evidence is what makes this place such fun! In fact, I had not heard of the "new" Voss D.III!
It seems that the idea of 425/17 having lower wing crosses that had not been fully converted to the latin style started with the trophy'ed crosses. I was suggesting they had been fully converted and that maybe wear & tear over the years had flaked off paint and made them look incomplete? I have never seen them in person myself and would welcome the imput of someone who has. I'm never too old to learn.  Never paid much attention to the von R artifacts but I will from now on, this is FUN!
I believe the source was an article in Windsock magazine a couple of years ago. I will certainly let you know when I find it.
Yeah, you're right. Didn't Imrie say that one digit of the werke number was unreadable so based on the possibilities he was "almost certain" the s/n was 477/17 or XXX/17?
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I have inspected the lower wing cross and as I have stated previously in this thread the latter cross never had its white border applied, it is obvious from the photo I presented that the red and black have been applied but not the white, it is inconceivable that only all of the white would have peeled off leaving the rest intact.
I do not know of another lower wing cross.
Langdon