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Place name to identify
Hi all,
Atached is a scan of the back of a photo of some Luftwaffe crew members end of 1944. I can read the following: ????? Von rechts: Jehle, Zehetner, Flossmann, (x) Brüning und Sprenger (alle uber London weggeblieben) but the first word is a mystery to me. It looks like it's something like "Esalonitan". Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Place name to identify
Nobody ?
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Re: Place name to identify
It may be Salonitan, a city near Solin, Croatia. I must say that the way the capital letters are written is very unusual to me. But my background is in written Slavic words.
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Re: Place name to identify
Ff Oblt Karl Egon Hellwig + - the following baled out over England and taken prisoner Bo Uffz Johann Jehle , Bf Uffz Walter Flossmann Bs Fw Roland Kunert on 22-1-1944 6/KG54
Ff Uffz Heinz Goergen + - the following baled out over England and taken prisoner Bo Uffz Joachim Spenger , Bf Uffz Alois Zehetner , Bs Uffz Wolfgang Bruning 29-1-1944 3/KG54 According to the AD(I)K reports the three crewmen from 6/KG54 had previously been with 3/KG54 a common base for several of them had been with IV/KG54 at Grottaglie other bases mentioned prior to moving to Germany for Steinbock were Novarra/Cameri and Piacenza Last edited by Brian Bines; 21st November 2020 at 00:31. |
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Re: Place name to identify
Must be some misspelling - there is no city in Croatia named Salonitan. There is Solin (Latin and Italian: Salona) alright, a town in Croatia near the city of Split.
Last edited by sidney; 21st November 2020 at 20:17. |
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I don't think this place is somewhere in eastern Europe. I think it's more likely to be in southern or western Europe.
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Croatia is in fact located in southern-east Europe, west of Greece, and north of Italy.
Last edited by sidney; 21st November 2020 at 16:58. |
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I thought it looked like Salonica but did not know if KG54 operated there .
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Re: Place name to identify
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Besides, in the sentence "...with the remains of the oldest Salonitan cemetery basilica...", the word "Salonitan" is adjective. The name of town is Solin (Salona). Never mind. |
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