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Re: Need help IDing I unit I came across...
Nick, Don & Others -
I found some additional information on it in my notes.
Here is how it appears in contemporary Lw. documents while at Orléans-Bricy: School Units: Jagdlehrerüberprüfungsstelle (Oct 42); Jagdlehrerüberprüfungsgruppe (Nov 42 – Aug 43).
And here is an alternate translation provided by RAF intelligence in 1944-45: Fighter Instructors' Refresher Group.
It was organized in accordance with KStN 1886 (L) and had a Stab, 1. (Einsatz-) Staffel and 2. (Übungs-) Staffel, these being an operational and a training squadron respectively. Its Feldpost Nr. was L 53680.
Its title and organization pretty well indicate its function and mission: to provide refresher training to fighter instructors, test them and then either re-certify them or wash them out. In a sampling of 50 of its losses between Aug 42 and Jun 44, only 5 were due to enemy action. The others were all crashes, accidents, engine failures, etc. This suggests that it was almost exclusively engaged in training.
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