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Re: Artur Dau 7/JG51 - Bf 109 Call Sign - 10 July 1940
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My impression (largely from Pow interrogations and signals monitoring in Italy) was that the callsigns were used for more than one op, though for how long, I don't know. Examples: ALTVATER ("Patriarch") was III./JG 53 in Summer 1944. From the body of a pilot thought to be from I./JG 77, Allied Intelligence retrieved a list of callsigns which “confirm the presence in Italy of I./JG 2.” These were Trommelfell (ear drum), Mansarde (attic) and Pilatus (Pilate) and were thought to be used at different times of the month. The fighter control station in the south was Bleistift (pencil) |
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Re: Artur Dau 7/JG51 - Bf 109 Call Sign - 10 July 1940
Thanks Nick
But all aeroplanes in the Gruppe could not have been Altvater (or whatever). Since a Gruppe had by that time three or four staffeln I assume they then called out their colour and Verbandkennzeichen, such as "Altvater weisse ein" and so on.... ....which does not explain how our <,<I, << etc made their calls. And what about bombers/recce and so on what did they use? Training units where only Stammkennzeichen was used, did they use the German alphabet for each letter, such as Dora, or whatever names they used? Cheers Stig |
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Re: Artur Dau 7/JG51 - Bf 109 Call Sign - 10 July 1940
I think name and number would be used. My call sign at 4 FTS was always Alpha 63
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