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Also regarding that POW camp in Marseille, I found this few years ago, do you have any info about that? "I have been speaking with a person who was interned at Camp 404, near Marseilles during 1945. The Camp had a small American Admin section, however, the guards were Yugoslavian. My friend tells m...

Send me your e-mail address using the PM (Private Message) contact on this website. I have a 3-page manuscript on the Kroatischen Flak-Legion (Legija Hrvatska protuzrakoplovna) that includes a bibliography.

L. deZ.

Interesting, Andrus! An excellent example of the continuous command disagreements between OKH and Ob.d.L. Re Kotly: the only bomber unit there in August-September 1942 was II./KG 76. [Source: https://www.ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Russia%20and%20Ukraine.pdf] But, as you pointed out, it was an Abspringh...

Lavansaari and Kotka in the Gulf of Finland and 7./KG 1 go together nicely prior to III./KG 1 moving to Bryansk on 9 August. It's possible the 21(22?) August incident was a 7. Staffel Ju 88 that was held back at Dno and did not go to Bryansk. It may have been in the workshops at Dno and not servicea...

Hmmm.........Andrus. III./KG 1 (including 7.St.) was temporarily detached to the Central Sector and operating from Bryansk at this time: 9.8.42: aircraft and crews of III./KG 1 temporarily transferred to Bryansk to support Operation “Wirbelwind” - an offensive to recover ground east of Roslavl aroun...

Ssytschkowo is the German spelling of Sychkovo after transliteration in to English.

There is a Sychkovo 10 km. NW of Bobruisk in Belorussia (Belarus). There may be others. The locations of this name in Ukraine would be spelled differently in Ukrainian.

L.

rgilkey: A week or so ago you posted either here or on http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/ a bunch of Luftwaffe acronyms and abbreviations that were in your g-g-father's papers and I gave you the translation into English for every one of them. Did you not see this? You should be able to tell what he did ...

Go here to find out where 15.Kp. was stationed:

https://www.ww2.dk/ground/ln/ln217.html

L. deZ.

W.B.K. : Armed Forces Registration and Induction Command (or: Detachment or Center) Fw. : Feldwebel (Sergeant) Lt. : Lieutenant Kr.O. : Kriegsoffizier (battlefield commission, i.e., commissioned from the enlisted ranks during the war) Ln. : Luftnachrichten:: Air Force Communications or Signals Serv...

Here's an extensive bibliography for the Seenotdienst: Dierich-VdL, pp.283-97; PRO London: AIR 40/British Air Ministry (A.I.3.(E)) “Organisation of the Air/Sea Rescue Service in the G.A.F.", 31 January 1944; Air Ministry (A.I.3.(E)) "Numbered Units of the G.A.F. Air/Sea Rescue Service", 30 October ...

Seenotzentrale (L) Sizilien Formation and History . (Mar 41 - Jun 41) Formed (new) March 1941 at Taormina/NE Sicily. Responsible for air-sea rescue operations in the central and western Mediterranean. Subordinated to X. Fliegerkorps. Renamed Seenotzentrale (L) Athen o/a 5 June 1941. FpN: (L 04656) ...

Jagdfliegerführer "The Jafü received a steady stream of weather and radar updates, signals intelligence reports and unit readiness reports which were plotted on 3 large display maps: one for weather, the central plotting map, which was the largest, and a readiness map showing the location and statu...

This was the only one assigned to the Central Mediterranean area in 1941-43. 6. Seenotstaffel (Unit Code: Q8 (K3?)+ - assigned Mar 44) as : Seenotflugkommando 6 (Mar 41 - Jun 41) 6. Staffel/Seenotgruppe d.Lw. (Jun 41 - May 42) 6. Seenotstaffel (Jun 42 - 19 Aug 44) Formation . (Mar 41) Formed March 1...

Guido J. - I have some information on this unit, but due to circumstances beyond my control, namely a house fire on 26 March 2023, my books, research notes, usw., were smoke-damaged and taken to a storage warehouse to be detoxified and cleaned. I do not have access to any of this now and won't until...

@Carl, wwilson and J.Broshot, The daily or near-daily Ia/Genst.d.Lw. document series identified below is the principal one providing the information Carl seeks. Unfortunately, only a few of them survived the war and none of those are for 1943. I've been searching for these since the early 1980's in ...