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Originally Posted by harri109
I would be interested if any members know what the four letters followed by Paris represent on the reverse of the envelope, JG2 feldpost office maybe??
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Perhaps LG 5 or 2 b. Paris. Not sure at all even though it's not Sütterlin. LG, if it is LG, could be Luftgau (Air Sector) or Luftgeschwader (??? Not very likely). After LG is it really a figure 2 or 5? I don't know.
b. is bei = near.
Even today all letters in German sent for business or administrative purposes (not to good friends or family members) begin with "Sehr geehrter…" (Very Honoured…) or "Sehr geehrte…" if it's sent to a woman or to several pesons (in this case "geehrte" is plural). It is just the normal beginning of a letter and doesn't mean anything particular, like in English "Mister" or "Sir" (except if this Sir really was made a Sir by the king/queen) or "Dear Sir" to begin a letter. "Hochverehrter" (Highly Honoured) in this case is also a usual cliché at the time when writing to a superior officer etc. and I think it's still in use today, not only for military personnel. Our German members know this better than I do.
The word "Jägerei" doesn't mean the hunting industry but, quite informally and colloquially (it's a bit hard to translate right), "the fighter business" or "the fighter arm", perhaps "the fighter stuff" etc.