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Originally Posted by Rémi Baudru
Bonjour,
I have recently purchased the new Eduard model of the "Sturmbock". One of the seven options of decoration is for the Fw 190 A-8 W.Nr 682204 (red 1) of Lt Bretschneider of 5/JG 300 in late 1944. Pictures of this plane can be found page 70/71 of the Vol 2 of the books written by Jean-Yves Lorant = Bataille dans le ciel d'Allemagne (JG 300 story) or page 363 of "Focke Wulf Jagdflugzeug..." written by Peter Rodeike).
In the notice of the Eduard model it is written : "according to new sources, the inscription bellow the cockpit (Rauhbautz VII) was yellow with red shadowing... and the spinner carries a white spiral on a red background".
Does any follower of this forum could tell me what are these "new sources" ?
Could anyone explain how could "Rauhbautz" be translated ?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
RB
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Rémi !
"Rauhbautz" is the name of a horse in German military service (Armeepferd), whose adventures were created in two novels by a German writer Lehmann in the beginning of the 1940ties. It's very hard to translate it,. Rauh means raw or rough. Bautz seems to be a local dialect term or an apprevation for the city of Bautzen. Since Bretschneider was a Berlin origin and Bautzen is not so far away, maybe a stud farm existed near Bautzen, which produced "Rauhbautz'es"
Only a guess.
Best wishes !
Horst Weber