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Old 26th September 2011, 10:13
Larry Hickey Larry Hickey is offline
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Re: meaning of technical term in German

Hello,

Another related translation question: on 31.8.39 the I./ZG76 KTB reported: "At about 21.00 hrs we received an order via phone call: “Ostmarkflug 1.9, Quelle 45.” This appears to have been the alert to the unit that hostilities were about to commence. Does anyone know exactly what this means, and was it a general alert for all Luftwaffe units concerning the initiation of the attack on Poland, or would this have been only some kind of code for alerting I./ZG76?

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