View Single Post
  #4  
Old 19th November 2021, 00:03
Nick Beale's Avatar
Nick Beale Nick Beale is offline
Super Moderator
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Exeter, England
Posts: 6,168
Nick Beale is a jewel in the roughNick Beale is a jewel in the roughNick Beale is a jewel in the roughNick Beale is a jewel in the rough
Re: Correct Luftwaffe unit designation needed in short hand

Quote:
Can anyone on here give me the correct format how to spell out these stab - gruppes? With dots etc where they need to be etc.
OK, trying to remember what I did at school … There is a logic to this:

A) All German nouns start with an upper case letter: so Stab, Gruppe, Staffel, Geschwader etc.

B) The numbers of Gruppen and Staffeln have a dot after them because that's how German ordinals are written: 1. = 1st, II. = 2nd etc.

C) No dots after Geschwader numbers: think Jagdgeschwader 1, not 1st Jagdgeschwader.
__________________
Nick Beale
http://www.ghostbombers.com
Reply With Quote