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Re: W34 with strange equipment down during the Polish campaing
The reason for the civilian marking was probably that it was a civilian aircraft mobilized into the Luftwaffe. Having such an aircraft sent to a Kurierstaffel seems logical.
At the same time (fall 1939), mobilized Tiger Moth were used by RAF schools and some crashed and were lost before receiving military serials.
We now know that the war was just starting then, but at the time German leaders were sure that England and France will not react when they invaded Poland, and then, once they were proven wrong on 3 September 1939, were mainly convinced they will search peace once Poland had fallen. So there were probably plans to return this aircraft to his civilian owner as soon as the war was over.
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