Messerschmitt Bf.109G - Bulgarian users

From 1941 onwards, the Royal Bulgarian Air Force received many new German equipment, among them the famous Bf.109E, as they got 15 of them. Later in the war, as the American bombers which were on their way to bomb Ploesti, in Romania, had to cross Bulgarian soil, the Bf.109E proved to be outdated, so the decission of adquiring many of the new Bf.109G was taken.
A total of 145 Bf.109Gs were adquired and assigned to the various squadrons of the Royal Bulgarian Air Force.
They took part in the aerial defence of the country as the Allied raids intensified and was the fighter of choice for the top Bulgarian aces in history. Among them Stoyan Stoyanov which is depicted below and he flow that aircraft until being promoted to the command of 3.6 Orlyak (3.6 squadron) and after that it passed to his successor pouruchik Petar Manolev.
It was also the aircraft of podporuchik of S Marinopolski who painted the name of his girlfriend Helga under the cockpit and applied it to make it look like kill marks from a distance. Poruchik Ditmar Spisarevski managed to shot down an American B-24 Liberator on 20th December 1943 manning his Bf.109G-2 and, according to eyewitness he managed to shot down a second one by a ramming attack, although only the first one was officially recognized. The application of his individual number in yellow indicates that the aircraft belongs to the staff of the 3.6 orlyak.
The last batch of Bf.109Gs that Germany supplied to Bulgaria in mid-1944, included some late production Bf.109G-6s with the famous Galland hood.
Once Bulgaria switched sides in September 1944, the Bf.109Gs kept serving with the Bulgarian Air Force with the new pro-allied markings which they served with until the end of the war.
It seems that shortly after the war, in mid-to-late 1945 they were gradually replaced with the Soviet-made Yakovlev Yak-9.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109_operational_history
2. http://www.lasegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?t=4091 (translated)
3. Osprey - Aircraft of the Aces 58 - Slovakian and Bulgarian Aces of World War 2