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Re: Location for air battles on 5th of April 1945
Stig,
I am not sure of how/why different variations were used, but my personal preference is to use TRS to represent Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (or Group for TRG), i.e. gun-carrying ships. The non-gun carrying units I always use PRS, for Photo Reconnaissance Squadron. This is just my way of designating them but whether they are the official terms or not is unknown to me. I cannot speak for Frank, but possibly he used RCN to shorten typing out Tact Recon Sqn; he abbreviated Ftr Sqn, again I assume, to save time/space in his works. Perhaps someone else has the background on this, unfortunately, it was a question I never thought to ask him when he was alive. Kent |
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Re: Location for air battles on 5th of April 1945
Alex and Kent
Thank You both for your answers. To be 100% truthful, I have never paid much attention really to what these Sqs/Grps were called.... However in this case the RCN title stood out in such a manner that I actually took a look in Frank's work and thus asked you Kent. Before that I looked up some of them in Maurer Maurer, but that did not give me anything since he does not use abbreviations at all. So for the time being I accept that RCN was some kind of "home made" expression used by Frank Thank again Guys Cheers Stig |
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