A question I often get from my book buyers is why I don't portray a specific aircraft from both sides and why not the top and bottom of the same plane.

The simple explanation is that as a profile artist I want to keep speculation to a minimum and if there is no access to photo documentation I simply don't do these profiles.

Of the over 3 000 profiles I have done to date, all of these can be confirmed by photographs, unfortunately the melancholy fact is that very rarely are these machines so well documented that you have access to photos from both sides of the airframe, and even more unusual is that you have any form of documentation of the bottom and top of a specific aircraft.

In fact, only 50-70 of the 3 000 aircraft I have profiled to date are portrayed from both sides, and even fewer of their bottom and top sides.

Anyway, I have by now gone through my old Fw 190 D-9 profiles and can state that seven of these can be defacto confirmed on both sides. One of these machines is this colorful machine that was flown by Lt. Sachsenberg.

Heinz "Wimmersal"Sachsenberg was after flight training posted as a Feldwebel to JG 52 during the fall of 1942. And on 21 April 1943, he managed to file his first abschuss, downing an Il-2 Stormovik.

Sachsenberg would be a steady claimer and downed his 22nd advisory on 30 July 1943, a Yak-1 that fell before his guns west of Krymskaya.

He would add another 16 confirmed victories over Kursk up to 12 August. After a spell of leave from September to November due to battle fatigue he was awarded the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold.

Back into action in November 1943 and returning to JG 52 he would increase his score by another 15 VVS machines reaching a total of 52 abschuss.

Eleven more claims would be filed by Sachsenberg in January 1944, and four in February. Another 10 claims was filed by him during March thereby reaching the total of 76 and Sachsenberg was recommended for the Ritterkreuz.

Upon returning to the Crimea at the beginning of May, he managed to down 25 aircraft in just a month time including six aircraft on 7 May, and five more on 8 June 1944, bringing his total to 101 air victories.

He was the 76th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve 100-victories mark and the Knight's Cross followed on 9 June 1944.

Promoted to Leutnant, he claimed his final victories over Hungary in March-April 1945, including a USAAF P-51 and a Soviet P-39.

In 1945, he was transferred to Turbin jägers in JG 7 but in April 1945 he joined JV 44. Here Sachsenberg was assigned as Staffelkapitän of the Platzschutzstaffel the airfield-protection Staffel protecting the Me 262s take-offs and landings while flying in the units Fw 190 Doras.

His well known Dora "Rote 1" was like the rest of the machines in Platzschutzstaffel colorful. The inscription on his Fw 190 D-9 was "Verkaaft's mei Gwand I foahr in Himmel!" meaning in a Bavarian dialect "Sell my clothes I'm going to heaven".