Unit identification

[Goldbeach]

Hello,

Does someone can help me to identify a Luftwaffe unit which the short name is : Fl.W.16. W.F. some personnels from that unit were affected at observation and warning coastal posts in Normandy in 1944.
Thanks for any help.
Best regards.
JFLC

[Larry deZeng]

The unit is this one:

16./Luftgau-Nachr.Rgt. Westfrankreich
FpN: L 03164.
Formed spring 1943 in Caen as a Flugmelde-Reserve-Kompanie by renaming 12./Luftgau-Nachrichten-Rgt. Belgien/Nordfrankreich.
1943: based in Caen. (K.O. Hoffmann)
31 Jan 44: noted and unchanged. (Air Ministry intelligence)
6 Jun 44: 16. (Flugmelde-Res.Kp.)/Luftgau-Nachr.Rgt. Westfrankreich manned a chain of 64 coastal observation posts of 4 to 6 men per post along the Normandy coast and had its main Fluko plotting center in Caen. (ADI(K) 255/44)
4 Jul 44: reported it was dismantling its station this date. (CX/MSS/R233 and R234)
30 Jul 44: still operating but now under II./Ln.-Rgt. 53. (Air Ministry intelligence)
1944-45: not identified after 30 Jul 44, but its Feldpostnummer remained active to the end of the war.

"Fl.W." is the German abbreviation for Flugwache (air observer post).

L.

[edwest2]

Thank you Larry.


Ed