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'Top Secret Bird' by Maj. Wolfgang Späte (in its German original as 'Der Streng Geheime Vogel') resolves the issue. At the time that Späte saw the two Mitchells, he'd never seen them before and refers to them as 'Marauder-type twin-engined bombers' in a comparison with the B-26 which he knew. Unfortunately the translation into English is fluffed, and is rendered as 'Marauder', not 'Marauder-type', causing a confusion in the reader that the author neither experienced not intended.