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Re: EJG 1 1945: Which Staffel flew Fw 190, which Bf 109?
Hello Gerhard, Nick, Schlageter and Junker,
Thank you all for your thoughts.
Gerhard, I noted as well that Lippstadt is not that close to the area Berlin or Flensburg. But I could not find another larger replacement unit that was active in 1945 in the area of Lippstadt. In addition, several other Fw 190 with almost identical styles of the tactical markings were found around Berlin, Flensburg, South of Denmark. Therefore my conclusion was that 'White 48' probably came from the North of Germany, but was flown for whatever reason to Lippstadt before the end of the war.
Schlageter, interesting. Erg.JGr. West was only active until Nov44 and therefore was probably not the unit to which 'White 48' and the others found at the end of the war belonged to as I doubt that they would not have been reassigned to other units between Nov44 an May45. Nevertheless, interesting to see that another replacement unit used very similar tactical markings.
Junker, thank you very much for the pictures. The font type is slightly different from the one on 'White 48' and the others I listed earlier, which would support my believe that it was rather 1./EJG 1 than SG 151. Good to know that 14./SG 151 used White codes.
Roger
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