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09-17-2014 09:46 PM
# ADS
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Hi Alec,
8000 does seem rather high, but then Crailsheim apparently had an air station from the 1935 to 1945; it had a Flugzeugführerschule, a Flieger-Ausbildungs-Regiment stationed there too so must have been a sizeable establishment. I've seen lots of these discs with high numbers- I seem to recall 3000s and 4000s, so they must have had a lot of personnel start there and be sent to different units, OR they were just really big and over the course of the war simply had a lot of personnel. The map on flegerhorste.de looks pretty big.
And I just found a mention of a personnel record of a Fallschirmjäger (Axis History Forum) who started at Fliegerhorst-Kommando A9/VII Crailsheim- so I guess they were an induction 'unit' of a sort; that would explain the high number. Maybe they were like the Stammkompanie of Erstaz units- just a place to register, but not necessarily an actual physical unit in which many men served.
Ohhhhh- pillage then burn...
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Hello Matt,
Thanks for your post, what you say makes sense, could well be the reason for the high number. Normally I shy away from most things Luftwaffe, finding from the experience of trying to work through LW wehrpasses, them inherently more difficult to read / decipher than the army ones. Same goes for dog-tags. Just couldn't resist something cheap on the flea-market. Thanks again for the help.
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Sure thing Alec And of course, cheap is always a decent reason to pick up something- and discs with cords are relatively uncommon, so is a lucky find too
Ohhhhh- pillage then burn...
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? We're not discussing the fact that 8000 is a high number just in general- but a high number for the type of unit this appears to be. 6067 isn't an unreasonably high number for the Stammkompanie of a Landesschützen replacement unit
Ohhhhh- pillage then burn...
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