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Old 8th November 2011, 12:08
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Re: IWM photo collection site

Nice findings Marc (also yesterday), thanks for posting!

But also the IWM is incorrect sometimes, location of the last photo is Faßberg. Schmarbeck is a very small village just south of this airfield.

The very same photo was published in Jet&Prop "Foto-Archiv 6" and another one, after the planes have been brought in the open in Brett Green's "Götterdämmerung".
I guess most of those aircraft had belonged to Fliegertechnische Schule 2. Two of the He 111 visible carry a code beginning with "TS+C.", resp. the code "TS+CA". Also the He 177 reveals a "..+CO". My guess is now that "TS+C." is not a Stammkennzeichen block but the Verbandskennzeichen of (at least) FTS 2. (Just like what I think could be "TS+MB" for FTS 3 (Munich) and "TS+MA" for FTS 6 (Bayreuth)). Can anyone comment on this?

Regards,
Christian
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