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Fighters of both the 9th and 8th Air Force attacked the aerodrome in Cheb (Eger in German), Czechoslovakia several times in the last weeks of World War II – on April 16 and April 21, 1945, for instance – and destroyed dozens of enemy aircraft.
This Siebel Si 204 transport and training plane was obviously shot up as well – there are many machine gun bullet holes can be recognized next to the window (please see the detail below). Mr. Ludek Matejicek, author of the brilliant book on the history of the aerodrome in which the pictures were originally published, wrote to me the identification code TJ+XQ was painted in red. The Siebel seemed not to be assigned to any unit and the code was actually a factory registration as ChrisMAg2 pointed out in the Axis History Forum. But this type was not manufactured in Cheb...



























