Artur Dau 7/JG51 - Bf 109 Call Sign - 10 July 1940

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Thanks Robert
Can you explain it a bit more in detail please?

Were these code names permanent or issued for each mission?
If the latter, they would need the German dictionary to comply.....

Cheers
Stig

PS: I remember that film, but not the vegetable bit....
I and many others from the Swedish Aviation Historical Society were there with an exhibition
with models, photos etc
Jesus, where did time evapaorate.....

Cheers
Stig

On the RAF side "Rabbit Squadron airborne!", from the Luftwaffe »Tomate Eins an alle!«

My impression (largely from Pow interrogations and signals monitoring in Italy) was that the callsigns were used for more than one op, though for how long, I don't know. Examples:

ALTVATER ("Patriarch") was III./JG 53 in Summer 1944.

From the body of a pilot thought to be from I./JG 77, Allied Intelligence retrieved a list of callsigns which “confirm the presence in Italy of I./JG 2.” These were Trommelfell (ear drum), Mansarde (attic) and Pilatus (Pilate) and were thought to be used at different times of the month. The fighter control station in the south was Bleistift (pencil)