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Re: Why was I./KG 1 selected to become III./KG 40
Chris -
Nothing seen in these sources that might offer an explanation:
Sources:
Unpublished: BA-MA Freiburg RL 2 III Gen.Qu.(6.Abt.) Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle und Verluste... (LRs — Loss Reports)
NARA WashDC RG 242 Microcopy T-312 roll 296/f.1737-57; Microcopy T-313 roll 112/f. 432,442,538,598,686
PRO London AIR 40: 1966,1979,1982
SPOHR, Wolfgang Gottfried (Hptm.) - “Kriegschronik des Kampfgeschwader 1 ‘Hindenburg’”, a 78-page manuscript c.late 1944/early 1945. Hptm. Spohr belonged to Geschw.Stab/KG 1 and used all KTBs and Anlagen. In: BA-MA Freiburg RL 10/529; NARA WashDC T-971 roll 50/f.965-1056; AFHRA Maxwell AFB Karlsruhe Collection K113.408-3.
BA-MA RL 40/41 Kart; LRs; Spohr-KG 1:34; ULTRA HP2994, BT3071, BT3505; OIC/SI 116, 204, 182; ADI(K) 38/44, 45/44, 88/44; F.Selinger letter to author 17.2.93.
Published: After the Battle-The Blitz Then and Now; Aviatik Nr.l:34-39; Balke-KG 2:
50, 387-89; Dierich; Griehl-Do217:61,214; Jet & Prop Nr.5/92:58; Kannapin; Poolman-Condor:153; Smith/Creek-Ar 234:197; Tessin.
L. deZ.
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