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Originally Posted by Dennis Peschier
Nick,
... Also there were codes like
NABEF II./NJG.4
NADEF II./NJG.6
Do you know if these codes changed during the war? Or did a gruppe always had the same code?
Dennis
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These codes start appearing in Autumn 1944 but they do not belong to any one unit, it seems. So NABEF would be the second Gruppe of ANY Nachtjagdgeschwader. There were other made-up words for (e.g.) the first Staffel of a Kampfgeschwader or a Flakdivision or the thrid Gruppe of a Jagdgeschwader and so on. They then added a number to show which unit it was, so NABEF 4 = II./NJG 4.
I./NJG was NABCI so NABCI 4 = I./NJG 4
I have not yet found exactly when these codes began to appear but it seems that the Allies were able to deduce most of the meanings by about October/November 1944. There is a job for someone with a lot of free time to go through the HW5 series files and compile a list.
GOFRIDUS: I haven't seen any mention about Nantes so far. I would expect that the material for June-September 1944 would have something because the invasion provoked so much activity and so much signals traffic in France. ULTRA was no use when people used landlines, as they did when bases were well established and units not moving often.
Four-digit airfields:
4834 = Rhein-Main
4404 = Großostheim
5062 = Zellhausen