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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng
Sorry, Horst, but I am sticking to my statement above. The unpublished and published sources noted below all refer to this airfield as Finow or Eberswalde-Finow and still do.
- Ob.d.L./OKL documents researched by me and many others.
- British Air Ministry A.I.2.(b) documents on all known wartime German airfields.
- Mattiello, Gianfranco. Fliegerhorstkommandanturen und Flugplätze der deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 2000. Pb (oversize). 529p. Glossary of abbreviations. Appendix. Index.
- Ries, Karl and Wolfgang Dierich. Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen 1935-1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1993. ISBN: 3-613-01486-6. Hb (oversize). Dj. 313p. Airfield map sketches.
So, it seems we have a case of the Germans and Western Allies calling it by one name and the Russians by another. There are many, many cases of the same places being called by different names during the war, especially in the East.
L.
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Larry, stay cool
Eberswalde is a lager city in East Germany. The city is surrounded by the river Finow.
By local administration acts, this community now has the urban parts of Finow and Finowfurt (Ford over the river Finow) in the local administratial possesssion.
The airfield in question was located at the southern part of Finow, named Finowfurt.
Horst Weber