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Old 15th October 2006, 18:57
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Re: NOMENCLATURE OF LUTWAFFE AIR BASES in FRance

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Originally Posted by Nick Beale View Post
Hi SES. I think your attached list is not one of airfield code numbers, rather the numbers of the Fliegerhorstkommandantur (which could control a group of airfields).

Decrypted material usually referred to airfields by a three-digit number and the Allies gradually deduced which was which (helped because adjacent numbers were often close together on the map). Examples are:

Italy:
251 Viterbo
299 Castiglione del Lago
450 Osoppo
508 Bologna
562 Piacenza

France:
510 Montpellier
517 Toulouse
518 Toulouse-Francazal
532 Aix les Milles
536 Istres
Hi Nick,
You could be quite right. Good thing we got this discussion started.
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