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Re: Ju 290A-4, W.Nr. 165
Hi Richard,
If Kössler/Ott have stated that the W.Nr. is written 290110165 then that is the official way to write it (they are meticulous in their research). You will undoubtly find abbreviated references to the W.Nr. in both Junkers, RLM and Luftwaffe documents as well as in loggbooks etc. but that is of course due to need to saving time/space when writing such a leangthy W.Nr.
It is reasonable to assume that Green had a need to save space in his large publication and therefore shortened W.Nr. to only for digits irrespectively of their original leangth and for the average readers who doesn't make his own W.Nr. lists that would have been ok, also making the text more readable to the reader.
Green didn't get the overall W.Nr. list correct as shown in the list presented by Kössler/Ott.
/Mike
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