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Old 13th December 2017, 19:32
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Re: Luftwaffe Designation for Russian Aircraft as 'J-18'

Excuse me but I answered your question ... maybe my English is limited or stupid.

Have a look on this: Attachment 15932
How you see the handwritten I looks like the printed J (depending from handwriting and/or print).

The usual form of an "printed I" was an printed I Attachment 15934.

Of course in your example was used an printed J instead of an printed I and you asked me for an explanation and this question I answered:

"There are a lot of possibilities --- the correct stencil wasn't by the hand or used by others, an unskilled worker with problems in spelling (such peoples in Germany too), not enough time/ stress (but him was known that everbody understood the word because the handwritten I and the printed J have/had the same form) or... or... or..." ... or how we say in Germany: "Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel." ("Exceptions confirm the rule.")

But I believe this is an academic discussion and not part of an aircraft/airwar forum. So I believe it's more useless...
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