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Re: II.(Schlacht)Lehrgeschwader 2
Andreas -
Alright, Andreas, now we are back on track. Sometimes things are lost in translation and even though they are well-meant, then can come out wrong at the other end. Let's drop everything except the subject at hand.
It is very probable that you have discovered items at BA-MA that I missed during my several two-week trips there nearly 25 years ago. As you said above, you found the Vorträge in a file one would no likely explore for Luftwaffe material. You were very fortunate to find those in that the Org.Abt. orders up to around mid-1943 seem to no longer exist, with a few exceptions here and there. At least that is what I found out for myself and what others have told me. Nor are they to be found in any archival repositories in Washington or Montgomery/Alabama in which I have spent months and months since 1977, about 15 years after I began researching the Luftwaffe.
As far as credentials are concerned, I don’t want to go through all of that again as I have posted it several times here on TOCH! before and it is also addressed to some degree in our books which, incidentally, were not intended to be the last word on the subject like Jochen Prien has done with the Jagdwaffe. Our books were intended to fill an intermediate level of interest in the subject and mainly from the operational standpoint, i.e., something more than Wolfgang Dierich’s old single volume Verbände der Luftwaffe but nowhere near the level of detail offered by Prien. So there may be a lot of omissions and some errors. That is all covered in the Introduction to the books.
So for now, I will accept that 10.(Schlacht)/LG 2 was ordered formed on 1 March 1941 either at Calais-Marck, Krainici (Kraynitsi)/44 km S of Sofia in Bulgaria or Braunschweig-Waggum by II.(Schlacht)/LG 2. But I still have a problem with its status with the Gruppe, i.e., attached or integrated. If it was integrated as an organic component of the Gruppe as you have stated then that would be, in my opinion, a quite unusual thing. Not impossible, just unusual.
Regards,
Larry
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