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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
I don't think it necessarily had to go back home to Germany, but at least as far a repair facility away from the unit's base. In occupied France for example there were a number of places an aircraft could be sent: Fw 190s to Cravant/Auxerre, Bf 109s to Villacoublay, while Junkers had set themselves with one or more French aviation factories (I think that's where the Free French got some of the Ju 88s they operated).
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Balke refers to a " zugeteilten Stützpunktwerft " in Deblin that serviced aircraft from Luftflotte 2. I assume this is one of the places you are talking about.
Thanks Andy for the link to "Axis History" That was very informative and the kind of things I am looking for. My understanding of aircraft sent back to Germany for "repairs" went there for reconstruction and that these never went back to the front but instead went to the training schools.
Thanks both of you
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