Details on two Abschüsse Einsatzkommando Helsinki 16-17.2.44?

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

Andrus quoted Lfl 1 meldung for 17.2.44
"Nachteinsatz der Jäger: 18 Nachtjäger (4 nördl. 14 b. Helsinki"

I am pretty sure the "14" is short for Finnish (air) surveillance map grid 114. It was quite common in handwritten notes.

The Finnish grids were divided to four squares like this:

ab
cd

Each of the four squares was divided further to 9 smaller squares (like Germans did):

123
456
789

(this subdivision was not used in the quoted text)

You can see one Finnish grid map here:
http://timomeriluoto.kapsi.fi/KARTAT...hti%201945.jpg
It is actually for maritime surveillance at Gulf of Finland, but has the air surveillance grid numbers, too.

North of grid 114 (large open cyan/green numbers) b would mean 4 German nightfighters operated over Finnish South coast, Inkoo or so. Anyway outside the Helsinki area (which was for JG 302).


New finding for me, even if I have read the meldung several times.

Cheers,
Kari