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Originally Posted by Maximowitz
Wow! Well, you did a hell of a lot of research for that book and no doubt spent an equal amount of time and money on it, so for you to have that is only right. I'd like to hear a few stories about those "Wespengeschwader" reunions you attended though....  |
Max, This thread disappeared off the radar pretty quickly, and I have only just picked up on it again with the latest post.
Here's one that I found hilarious: A well-known German researcher/author was at one of the reunions, and we were introduced. He produced a load of photos and as we were going through them, I said of one photo, 'Good view of an Erganzüngs Zerstörergruppe Bf 110'. 'No', he replied, 'that is V.(Z)/LG 1'. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This guy could not differentiate between the HUGE wolf's head in the photo, and the tiny V.(Z)/LG 1 emblem. Nothing I said could convince him otherwise. When my good friend Karl-Fritz Schröder asked me what had gone on a couple of minutes later and I explained, he made a remark that I will never repeat anywhere...