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Old 9th November 2011, 08:19
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Re: IWM photo collection site

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Originally Posted by Nick Beale View Post
They were probably correct in that the aircraft were in a dispersal area and the British used the name of the nearest village. The IWM photo of the II./JG 26 Fw 190 "blue 6 + —" is captioned Steen-Ockerzeel, a village at the north-eastern corner of Brussels-Melsbroek aerodrome.

Nick,

thanks for your precision, which honors the ones given by the captions written down at the time.

Muggs_ro,

Simple but frustrating: not all pictures are already available as scans, the ones which aren't scanned so far are represented by the logo. Their number will certainly dwindle over time...

Cheers
Marc
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