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[Nick Beale]

I surmised that the poster didn’t know any English and foolishly imagined that a one-line post in German was the quickest way to help. Still, for all those like John who squander their leisure time in the Great Outdoors instead of in German classes, here’s a loose translation – no dictionary to hand - that’ll give you the general idea.

Hallo everyone,

For a long time I’ve been searching for traces of my father in a long-range reconnaissance unit. Until now I was looking at 3.(F)/33. It has turned out to be highly probable that my father was first there from 1942/43 at the earliest.

According to my researches, in 1941 (not just for a few days) my father was an armourer with the ground crew of a long-range reconnaissance unit. I have a photo dated June 1941 of the same outfit shipping-out. At the end of the year, a Christmas card from Libya.

I’m asking for help regarding which long-range reconnaissance unit followed that sequence of deployments in 1941. Could it be FAG 123 maybe?

I’d be grateful for any suggestions.

K. Dietrich

My reply was just a suggestion to start by checking out the recon section of www.ww2.dk