Pavel, There are a couple of publicity photos here showing leaflet dropping. Although these are obviously staged press photographs. In one picture they are loading individual small bundles into the aircraft but then the photograph inside the aircraft shows the larger packages stacked up behind the airman. The airman is not wearing gloves in the photo but again this photo was probably staged and taken on the ground rather than during the actual Nickel mission. The number of physical leaflets in a bundle would vary depending on the size of the leaflet and whether it was multiple pages or not - e.g. 4-page Luftpost newspaper. So to allow for size and page number variations a "leaflet unit" was established. 1 leaflet unit equalled a standard-size (5" x 8.5" approx), double sided leaflet. Therefore a four-page Luftpost newspaper of the standard dimensions equalled 2 leaflet units, (it had the volume of 2 regular sized leaflets). However, I do not have to hand the number of leaflet units in a bundle. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that the bundles were ideally held together by a rubber band, although rubber bands were sometimes in short supply. Although the bundles in these photos look to be held together by string. Hope this helps? Lee  
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