Thread: Luftwaffe - Recco Units over France during the Sitzkrieg & Westfeldzug
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Old 13th February 2006, 21:26
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Re: Luftwaffe - Recco Units over France during the Sitzkrieg & Westfeldzug
The Do 17S unit is actually well known - it is the one sometimes called Kommando Rowehl. Excuse me for not digging out the precise German term - it is the high altitude research staffel of the Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe - the Luftwaffe High Command. The term was used to cover its clandestine photo-recce work, using "cutting edge" prototypes fresh from testing at Rechlin. I maybe wrong on this, but possibly Rowehl himself was the pilot of this aircraft?
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