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[Larry deZeng]

Good digging, Gianandrea. I did not know about either of those sources. Avions has published some good research articles over the years, but it has always been expensive and hard to obtain here on the western side of the Atlantic.

Neufahrn sits on the edge of a thickly wooded area 10.5 km SSW of Freising. It was not an airfield, but rather pasture land or meadow where aircraft were parked and out of service in the final months of the war. The Luftwaffe began doing that with multi-engine planes in September 1944 when the fuel situation became critical. Many of these so-called Abstellplätze would never have been found by the Allies, but the Luftwaffe made the mistake of mentioning them in their coded radio signals and these were decrypted in the U.K. as part of the ULTRA traffic. After several months of hesitation, the USAAF and RAF fighter units began strafing these parking areas, some of which contained over 100 aircraft. The destruction was massive.

L.