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Re: emblem of JG7：wolf？fox？greyhounds or weasel？
【When I reported to Major Weissenberger.I was again struck by the hanging on the painted shield with the greyhound motif hanging on the ops room wall，when I asked Weissenbergerwhat the connection was，he told me thefollowing story：
“close to the airfield there‘s a large estate belonging to a countess ，who owned two greyhounds that used to sneak on to the airfield everyday to be made a fuss of by the men or beg for food.Each evening the two greyhounds would be returned to thecountess，only to turn up back again in the moment they could get away.Realising that they preferred our company to hers，the countess presented me with the two animals，That’s when I got the idea of calling our unit the ”Greyhound Geschwader“，and since then we‘ve included a greyhound in our badge】
Walter Shuck's memoirs Page.190
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