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Re: Details on two Abschüsse Einsatzkommando Helsinki 16-17.2.44?
Dear Laurent and Joerg -thanks a lot for your further and useful info!
Cheers, Theo |
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Re: Details on two Abschüsse Einsatzkommando Helsinki 16-17.2.44?
Hello!
Andrus quoted Lfl 1 meldung for 17.2.44 "Nachteinsatz der Jäger: 18 Nachtjäger (4 nördl. 14 b. Helsinki" I am pretty sure the "14" is short for Finnish (air) surveillance map grid 114. It was quite common in handwritten notes. The Finnish grids were divided to four squares like this: ab cd Each of the four squares was divided further to 9 smaller squares (like Germans did): 123 456 789 (this subdivision was not used in the quoted text) You can see one Finnish grid map here: http://timomeriluoto.kapsi.fi/KARTAT...hti%201945.jpg It is actually for maritime surveillance at Gulf of Finland, but has the air surveillance grid numbers, too. North of grid 114 (large open cyan/green numbers) b would mean 4 German nightfighters operated over Finnish South coast, Inkoo or so. Anyway outside the Helsinki area (which was for JG 302). New finding for me, even if I have read the meldung several times. Cheers, Kari |
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Re: Details on two Abschüsse Einsatzkommando Helsinki 16-17.2.44?
Hi Kari,
Thanks for sharing these interesting and useful additional observations. Cheers, Theo |
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