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Old 6th July 2015, 11:24
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Re: FW 190 w/n 173056

We don't yet know whether this aircraft served with any part of JG 11. Close Werk Nummern are not an infallible guide to the unit(s) aircraft were allocated to.

It was found in a railway yard at Reims and that city was liberated on 30 August 1944, so the aircraft was ferried to France between its manufacture in July and the end of August. It could have been damaged without ever leaving a depot or it could have seen active service. Jean-Bernard Frappé's book on the Luftwaffe in Normandy lists all the wrecks found including this one; some are cross-referenced to a unit which recorded their loss but this one is not. That suggests that there he knew of no record of this machine being lost or damaged in action when he wrote the book.

It may yet turn up in (for example) a photo, a pilot's log book, an ULTRA decrypt or the lists of aircraft passing through the repair facility at Cravant but nothing in this thread so far makes me certain that it was a JG 11 machine.
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