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Originally Posted by Larry Hickey
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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Ostmarkflug 1.9, Quelle 45: "Ostmark" was the name for todays Österreich/Austria. "Quelle" was a Jagdfliegerterm for "location", so literary translated it means
1.9 would stand for 1st of September, the day when german troops marched into Poland.
"45" is not possible to find out for me
Therefore the result is
Flight to Austria on 1st of September, location 45
As it was a codeword, there is no special meaning I guess.