[Johannes]

Hi Guys

I can e.mail Erik about it. No guarantee he knows himself, he may have just replicated this grid reference without knowing the code to deciphering it. Personally I don't include the grid-references in publications, only the deciphered place names, but I can see that an author could be allowing enthusiasts the opportunity to work it out themselves.

In the normal claims in the East the digits are related to a square i.e a square divided into nine or 3 x 3 boxes the centre box being box 4. By memory the first two digits relate to the actual square number, thus the number of the actual box within the square cannot be zero only one to nine, but the square number can be zere eight e.t.c.

Bernd Barbas supplied me with this gridding code. As I said before JG 54 was pretty static so there grid references remained constant for most of the war(as would JG 5's) but JG 52 was constantly on the move, and the grids would repeat i.e 62318 would be repeated every ten square east to west, same for north to south, but perhaps 1000 km apart!

As per my previous answer referring to TR as possible Trondheim.......this was purely a guess, TR might not be related to an actual abbreviation of a city, but possibly, maybe TR is a square between TP and TS......but again a guess based on the use of gridding systems.

Kind Regards

Johannes

P.S in the West a different grid system used letters rather than digits.