Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
so perhaps this led to people calling it a Me 109 while the company tried to stick to Bf 109, before giving in and changing the name of the company to Messerschmidt. And then there is the already mentioned 'fog of war' that will have influenced a consistent strategy in designations.
I doubt the Company was worried about the prefix LOL,as I previously posted - nobody ever called it a 'BF'109 and why would Willy bother about people calling the a/c after his Surname ?? The Company became Messerschmitt in 1938 so I would say fair enough to prefix as Me after 1938,I can never understand why all this matters so much and has taken up so much bandwidth over the years,who cares ? the Germans didn't
