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Re: Flugbereitschaft units
Hi,
In Peter Cornwells excellent book you will find losses of Flugbereitschaft 1. Fliegerkorps on May 20 and May 22, 1940. In both cases these were Fi156's. I suspect that these were somehow involved in selecting proper landing grounds, e.g. for the Transportstaffel 1. Fliegerkorps (of which 2 Ju52's were lost on May 21 due to unfit landing grounds ...). If this is true I would (loosely) translate their role as "Preparation unit", where the "bereit" then refers to "vorbereiten" or to prepare.
Of course our German forum colleagues should confirm.
Pieter
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