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Originally Posted by Jaap Woortman
Thanks Nick and Stig,
One remark. Zwolle has and never had an airfield. This must have been Steenwijk/Havelte. See also Bunderarchiv RL 42/4 situation January 1st, 1945.
This airfield is also called at some publications Nemwijk. See Kanapin, Mattiello and Holm. Maybe because of bad hand writing in the original document?
This airfield was demolished at March 24th, 1945 by the 8th US Army Air Force. The airfield was liberated at April 9th, 1945.
Jaap
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On 20 March 1945, an ULTRA mentions that Steenwijk is to be occupied by III./KG 200 and the Flak Korps VI should arrange protection. However, another ULTRA from the 23rd says that a Field Workshop unit is being sent to Drope for III./KG 200; a Vorkommando from III./KG 200 arrived on the 25th ; and the Gruppe was addressed there on the 28th.
As for the mention "11./SG 200", I suspect an error. On the Luftwaffe Aufmarsch maps that I saw in Freiburg, they did not use unit designations, just (e.g.) "II./1". You had to distinguish the unit type by the colour of ink it was written in. Not good if you got a photocopy!