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Hi!

I have a doubt on a specify Ju-52/3m, Stammkenzeichen code VB+UF.

In the first “In Action” book dedicated to the Ju-52, written for Uwe Fest, it says that this aircraft was of the Blindflugschule B36. The book has two photos of the VB+UF. In the first one, it is in the standard splinter camouflage, but it does not have a legend. In second, it already is with the standard winter camouflage, and the legend says: “based at Gardelegen to near Magdeburg”, without indication of date.

In the book “Luftwaffe Codes, Markings & Units 1939-1945” written of Barry C. Rosch, it has a photo of the same aircraft, in the winter camouflage, flying with other Ju-52. And the legend says: “Junkers Ju 52/3m transports of 2./KGzrvbV 9 on supply mission in Russia during to winter of 1942. The nearest aircraft is coded 4V+AK” (p. 106). Here, the problem is: the code 4V+ is really of 9 KGzrvbV - and not it VB+. And, according this same book, does not exist a Blindflugschule B36.

Which squadron this Ju-52 VB+UF belonged? It was in the Kessel of Stalingrad?

Cheers,
Franklin