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Old 22nd September 2008, 13:13
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Re: Paderborn Airfields

Hallo Fitti,

If you are sending me a private message we could write in German, here on the forum I will write you in the English language:
Perhaps interesting for you is to know that the first loss of the unit which stayed very long in Venlo (the airfield in my hometown), the I./NJG 1, occured on 22th June 1940: the crew of Fw. Thier/Fw. Brutsche were shot down by accident near/over Paderborn by another German crew (not even a nightfighter!). The last Fliegerhorstkommandant in Venlo went to Paderborn, were he was captured by American forces.

All the best, perhaps we can continue in German?

Marcel Hogenhuis (Förderverein Ehemaliger Fliegerhorst Venlo e.V.)
www.fliegerhorst-venlo.net
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