This profile was based on seven stills from a color film owned by Karl Höffkes and published by my dear friend Neil "Falkeeins" on his website. As a profile maker its unusual to get hold of that number of stills, and especially in color of one and the same aircraft.

This Fw 190 A-4, Black 1 was the machine of Oblt. Wolf von Bülow, Staffelkapitän of 5./ JG 2. He arrived to 5 Staffeln on 16 June 1941 after joining 2./JFS 5 in 1940 for pilot training. A year later, on 26 July 1942 von Bülow was appointed as the Staffel new Staffelkapitän a post he would hold up to his death on 23 February 1943.

The story of what was happened This day during the early morning was told by the II./JG 2 temporary Kommandeur, Oblt. Erich Rudorffer, published in in Erik Mombeek's ' Dans le Ciel de France ' (Vol 4):

" ..we were scrambled at 08:38 on the approach of a formation of US bombers. It was my task to keep Wolf von Bülow out of the action as much as I could. This was because Wolf was the son of our former Kommodore, who had already lost his other son, a U-boat commander** . So he only flew so many sorties and on this occasion he did not scramble with us. In the end it proved more dangerous on the ground than in the air, a stick of bombs came down on his hole' right were he had sought shelter. Oblt. von Bülow's body was riddled with shrapnel. His death was a terrible blow to morale. In any case the atmosphere within the unit was going downhill fast following Dickfeld's departure. There was far too much bad feeling and competitiveness around aerial victories and the scramble for decorations and promotion had become far too important and such a state of affairs could only harm any "esprit de corps'.."

Oblt. Wolf von Bülow was definitely not one of the high-scores in the JG 2 Richthofen accredited with a meager two abschusse. Perhaps he was on of those commander in the Jagdwaffe that took more care of his subordinates than chalking up his personal score.

Note the very dirty appearance of the Balkenkreuze fuselage crosses is interesting. This was rather common seen on German fighters, as the "Black men" when cleaning the aircraft fuselages of dirt and especial exhaust stains, leaving the fuselage cross.

This was one of four new profiles made during this week, most of them would be published in my upcoming Profile Book No 18.